Angie Thomas Quotes

The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

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• I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Movie

• I married beneath me, all women do.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Women
  • Me
  • Marriage

• I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Person
  • Feel
  • Balance

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Will
  • Taxes

• I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Water

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Mother
  • Brave

• I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Attitude
  • President

• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • True
  • Football

• My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Fool

• Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • You
  • See

• Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People

• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Generation
  • Good People
  • Repent

• I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Wife

• And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light, And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Why
  • Night

• The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

  

  Angie Thomas