Sharon Creech Quotes
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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I love 70's music.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
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You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
