Beverly Cleary Quotes

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Beverly Cleary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolSaturdayBackSailsMovies

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

John Gay

WomenMindNothingMustLikeThem

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Andrew Weil

TimeWorldImpossibleExerciseOut

It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.

Andrew Luck

GoodMeMomGrowing UpHairBeard

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

Ann Romney

MotherYouKnowYoungFiveHow

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

Steve Israel

WomenTimeMenProblemEarnPay

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

StandEasyAlwaysAnythingAround

I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off.

Ry Cooder

HateMeSickBackNowAlways

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

FearHappinessWhere

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

Julia Roberts

JobPersonExtraordinaryJustWho

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

LiveGreatMenMeBookBible

My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister.

DeRay Mckesson

FatherMotherMeSisterLoved

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

Deborah Mailman

WorkHard WorkMotherhoodEnergyYou

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