Nikki Grimes Quotes

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

Nikki Grimes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1950

Topics

FunnyChildrenFocusDayIdeasNew

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsPeopleSucceedBadGoOnly

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

St. Jerome

GoodI AmEffortMeSickRest

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

Stacy Keibler

SmartYouBodyYour BodyNeedYour

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Tony Blair

LiveWorldLongNewInterdependence

Spider-Man is loved by a huge range of people. I think the real target audience is people younger than 16. It's because he's going through what they're going through.

Tom Holland

PeopleThinkLovedTargetReal

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

ExperienceMeAlienRealStories

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

AngerDelayGreatestRemedy

I had a very boring life, which is fine. I like being boring.

Jason Day

LifeBoringBeingFineLikeVery

Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

Douglas Fairbanks

LifeSmileEyesGreatHappyStand

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Winona LaDuke

HistoryFoodCultureRootsStoryUs

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

Pilou Asbaek

WifePeopleMindToughPersonal

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

KnowledgeOpinionTrue

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