Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Soon

• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Medical

• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Man

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Soul

• The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

  

  Louis Agassiz

• The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Hypocrite

• It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Business
  • Discipline

• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Real
  • Friends

• What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • People
  • Words
  • Language

• I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Words

• I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Words
  • Characters
  • Key

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Explain
  • Animation

• Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Words
  • Snowflakes
  • Swirls