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Betty Williams Quotes

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 22, 1943

Topics

Say Arms Like Hugging

I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

Experience Color Think Search Find

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

History People Data Trying Living

When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public - the common earth.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Book Earth Pollution Way Write Old

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

World Facts Ignore Important Living

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

Tracie Peterson

Me Mom Story Busy Pen Write

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

People Early Kind Become Millennials

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

Love People Wish Country Admit

I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me.

Bridgit Mendler

Moment Job Fun Me Cool Down

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Work Me Mom Jeans Dry Willing

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

School Me Think Back Career Done

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

Meant To Be Now Right Break Ankle

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

I Am People Ideas Never Always Am

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