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

• Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• 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

• If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Important

• My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Family
  • American
  • Brother

• I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You can't say, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not feeling good today.' No. No one's trying to hear that. When a woman comes up to you and says, 'Hey, my daughter's your biggest fan. Can we have a picture?' You can't say no.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

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

  

  Elizabeth George Speare