Sharon Creech Quotes

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

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• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Free

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Teach
  • Listen

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• I live life what I consider to be normal.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Life
  • Gratitude
  • Drunk

• To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Baby

• I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Life
  • Women

• My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life

• I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Life

• I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The videos would literally be going on while I was sleep; that's what I was hearing in my sleep. I woke up in the morning, Tupac.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Night

• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Important
  • Growing

• My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Practice
  • Operations
  • Lectures

• When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

  

  Richard Norton Smith
  • Government
  • Response
  • Officials

• I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

  

  Sharon Creech
  • Life
  • Read
  • Listen