Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
-
It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
-
Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
-
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
-
Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
-
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
-
Who can control his fate?
-
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
-
It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
-
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
-
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
-
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
-
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
-
I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.
-
In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.
-
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
-
Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
