Judith Viorst Quotes

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.

Judith Viorst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1932

Topics

BelieveDownWriteFaithfulTurn

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

Jhumpa Lahiri

IslandUniversityCampusMargins

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

John Lewis

GovernmentCheckServePress

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Tom Kite

DisciplineMatterConcentrationBeing

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

GreatPlantsSeedsGrowDifference

I think I'd probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we'd get along, and I'd, like, chill him out because he'd be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I'd be like, 'Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.' And he'd be like, 'Thanks, Ron.' And then we'd form a friendship.

Ron Funches

FriendshipGoodThinkChillFriends

I met some lifelong friends doing 'The Archers.'

Lucy Davis

FriendsDoingLifelongSomeMet

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

Jay Nixon

TrustStressDemocracyThinkYou

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I CanPlaceWriteOfficeNeedWhere

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Diane Ackerman

FuturePathLuckChoicesBackWill

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

Clarence Clemons

LovedJustAgenda

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

Ali Krieger

LoveGameOpenUpBringTake

If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.

Alicia Garza

HistoryCulturePoliceRacismSaying

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