Beverly Cleary Quotes

In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.

Beverly Cleary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1916

Topics

WorldFeelFriendsPlayTeachers

I'm one of the most chill people I know.

Jimmi Simpson

PeopleChillKnowMost

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

Jill Lepore

WorkCollegeEmployeesNewDying

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

Jeff Dunham

HappyChildParentsYouthGrowing Up

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

Mercy Otis Warren

IndependenceAmericaPenSovereignty

I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999.

Stephen Hough

ThoughtLivingLondonNeverUntil

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Romesh Gunesekera

LifeLuckAliveWantKeepSomebody

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

Molly Antopol

MeStoryAdviceLongBackMy Own

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

Joseph Brodsky

CheapClassicsShouldThoseSold

I didn't get married until I was 38.

Don Rickles

GetMarriedGet MarriedUntil

A lot of celebrities have a sense of humor, and combined with an outrageous event, sometimes the sky's the limit!

Chris March

HumorSkySense Of HumorSometimes

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Bradley Whitford

TennisMasterTelephoneWhoMinutes

You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.

Bradley Wiggins

WinPlanYouTryNeverHappen

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