Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 25, 1937

Topics

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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Joaquin Phoenix

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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

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In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

Tristram Stuart

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I came to work one day, and Ricky was playing music on his guitar, just snickering. He played me the riff that turned out to be 'Rock Lobster,' and it was hilarious. He was just trying to be funny. His guitar style made it moodier, and it really is a driving song, but it does have that funny humor to it.

Cindy Wilson

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I start each book when it's ready and never before.

Alice Walker

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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

William Gurnall

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The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Phylicia Rashad

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Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

Shakira

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If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Scilla Elworthy

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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

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The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.

Murray Rothbard

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We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.

Marie Antoinette

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