Leah Ward Sears Quotes

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

Leah Ward Sears

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 13, 1955

Topics

FriendsYouCountryMeanNeedBegin

In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.

Andrew Zimmern

DoubtWallThreeLivingRoomPoison

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

Matt Damon

WritingStoryProblemsTryingYou

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Ann Cotton

EducationCommunityDayGenerosity

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Amy Tan

TimeParentsMeExpectationsHigh

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.

Steve Huffman

PhoneSoundNoiseLikeBuiltUse

Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run - nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen.

Steve Rushin

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As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

Tristram Stuart

GrowthWordsBookRevolutionForest

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.

Tom Folsom

StoryGoHollywoodAlwaysThrough

I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.

Mike D

HomeTimeReflectionGetting Older

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

Michel Martelly

TodaySchoolYouResultsGoWill

Until you love yourself, until you really believe that, you're stopped in your tracks. That's why it's so important to wear what you want to wear and be who you want to be.

Chrissy Metz

LoveYourselfLove YourselfBelieve

Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.

Clint Smith

ArtProcessProblemChooseStudent

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