Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Chris Van Allsburg

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• A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Mom

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Youth

• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Woman

• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Self-respect

• I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Feeling
  • Looking
  • Uncomfortable

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Wanted

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Job

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Special

• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • World
  • Sky

• I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Safety
  • Plans

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

  

  Katie Featherston
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Book
  • Way

• The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Feeling
  • Sky