Robert Cormier Quotes

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1925 - November 2, 2000

Topics

LifeAloneTeenAdolescenceAlways

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Jackson

ForgivenessHeartJoyMeLostHead

I'm a compassionate conservative.

John Engler

ConservativeCompassionate

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

FairYearsPretendLittleMustGods

Cows' milk and soya milk isn't good for me. Almond milk and rice milk is OK. I don't really drink alcohol, either. Maybe wine but only sometimes.

Robert Lewandowski

GoodMeAlcoholWineSometimesMilk

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MountainsCloudsPresenceEternity

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

Angela Duckworth

ServiceFocusSchoolSisterHomeless

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

Michael Gerber

BusinessPerspectiveStrugglePeople

The arts are a celebration of life.

Michael Douglas

LifeCelebrationArts

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

Mia Goth

TruthHatFictionRabbitMagician

People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make sense; but talking about it is always good.

Amber Mark

GoodPeopleBelieveTalkingOpinions

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

Stephen Hough

AnimalPlaceCreateFirstLeftovers

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Ron Perlman

ThankfulGrassBreathingWhatever

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