Kate DiCamillo Quotes
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
Ueli Gegenschatz
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter
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I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
Lech Walesa
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
Virginia Woolf
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Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.
Alice McDermott
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The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.
Betty Sue Flowers
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo