Sarah Dessen Quotes

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

Sarah Dessen

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• It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

  

  Alice Paul

• If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

  

  Christopher Charles Lloyd
  • Rap

• I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

  

  Poppy Montgomery
  • Up

• It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Morning
  • Segregated
  • Christian America

• We knew we would make it and become very big.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Make
  • Big

• Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.

  

  Reggie Lee
  • Need
  • Everything
  • Already

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Life

• My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

  

  Jodhi May
  • People

• Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Done
  • High
  • Sun

• Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Sides
  • Jungle
  • Bananas

• Communism, my dear," I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while.

  

  Alina Bronsky
  • Hold
  • Communism
  • Bananas

• While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, he just keeps on making peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and he never leaves.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
  • Jesus
  • Kitchen
  • Lifetime

• I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Picture

• Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Dog

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • According

• One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Hardest

• I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Bananas