Elizabeth George Speare Quotes

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

Elizabeth George Speare

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• It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Kids
  • Eating

• I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Taxes
  • Drive
  • Roads

• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Beginning

• There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Good
  • May

• 'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • World
  • May
  • Science

• There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.

  

  Parker Conrad

• My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Heart
  • Emotional

• Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Dream

• I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • Remember
  • Eyes
  • Winter

• I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee

• I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

  

  Mary McFadden
  • World
  • Art
  • Gold

• The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Wish

• College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

  

  Lee Thompson Young
  • College
  • Teenager

• The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

  

  Bunker Roy
  • People
  • College

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Environment
  • Revolution
  • Achieve

• If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'

  

  Patty Duke
  • Fashion

• The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

  

  Craig Owens Chiodos
  • Reality
  • Behinds
  • Appearance

• We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare