Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1949

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Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

Jim Rash

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Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I got tired of going to the barber to keep my fade together, so I just cut it all off.

Andre Braugher

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I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

John Connolly

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The first boy that I had a crush on and dated was Cole Sprouse... from 'Suite Life.'

Alyson Stoner

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That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Sojourner Truth

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Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

Tom Cotton

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It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Robert Burns

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Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

Debbie Reynolds

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I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Colin Farrell

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People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Brian Eno

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But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Anne Hutchinson

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