Sharon Draper Quotes

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

Sharon Draper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1948

Topics

DreamsMeWritingReadingDreamer

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Jim DeMint

PeopleIdeasPowerfulMoreThan

I love the Mexican chapulines. These little crickets are beautifully roasted with salt and lime.

Andrew Zimmern

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When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Michael Gove

GoodDisciplineGovernmentSupport

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

Amanda Lindhout

FamilyFatherMotherWifeSupport

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

Sister Souljah

FamilyLoveRevengeWriteSameGang

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

Shonda Rhimes

SayingGuiltyStopSayCompliment

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Robert De Niro

SimplePeopleThinkYouBackGo

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Mary Karr

SmartEnoughNeverHappenTackle

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

Little Milton

GoodMoneyMenFunChanceYou

Every guy needs a pair of beaten up Converse Chuck Taylors. The coolest sneakers in the world.

Jason O'Mara

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If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.

Donovan Bailey

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Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

Clint Smith

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