Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Sharon Draper

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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Girlfriend

• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Bad
  • Behavior
  • Reward

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Clever

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Service

• This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Control
  • Desire

• In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Men
  • Truth

• I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Travel
  • Daily

• In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Time
  • Money
  • Political

• I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

  

  Patti LuPone
  • Real
  • Rock

• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • People
  • Deception

• Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

  

  Bertha von Suttner
  • Good

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Why

• I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Father

• Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • People
  • Faith
  • Rock

• We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Value

• To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Prayer
  • Bird
  • Fairness

• Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Moving
  • Ignorance
  • Enlightenment