Beverly Cleary Quotes

I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

Beverly Cleary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MemoriesChildhoodMemoryPeople

If you could dance to it and it didn't tax you, I liked it.

Jimmy Savile

DanceYouTaxLikedCould

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

Stephen Kinzer

MyselfPlaceNowFirstMovementSee

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

Steve Yzerman

DecisionManagementPlanDownDrama

I can't even touch my toes!

Tom Holland

TouchToesEven

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

Rob Portman

BestDayEnd Of The DayEndOvercome

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Michael Korda

SuccessPowerChildhoodPeopleKind

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

Dimebag Darrell

EnoughPlayOkaySoloCallGoing

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

Colson Whitehead

BlacknessRepresentativeHealer

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

PatriotismSacrificeLongPinnacle

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Willie Brown

TruthPoliticsLieWithin24 Hours

I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu!

SZA

PeopleMeBlackLipsNothingUsed

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

Peter Guber

BusinessVisionStartProcessYou

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