Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
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You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to these authors' experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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Every work of art is about everything.
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.
