Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Earth

• Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good

• In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • School
  • Church

• I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Believe

• I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

  

  Marc Forster
  • People
  • Live
  • Fear

• All great achievements require time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great

• It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Powerful

• We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Help
  • Small

• If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Fun
  • Single
  • Romantic

• I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Time
  • Book
  • Single

• In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Book
  • Age
  • Words

• Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • World
  • Live
  • Reading

• To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

  

  Boomer Esiason
  • World
  • Mind
  • Opportunity

• My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

  

  Anita Desai
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Style

• Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Book
  • Boys
  • Girls