Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1963

Topics

GoodTeacherEyesMeRememberLong

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

Joan Collins

FatherConfidenceGirlBeautifulShe

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

John Breaux

OutUnitedGetSolidUnited States

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Joel Osteen

GodYourselfPotentialReachYou

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

John Dykstra

PeopleEnvironmentCameraKnowDone

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

Andrew Rannells

LifeMy LifeConversationGayWhere

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

PlanningKindYearsWhereWellFact

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

Stephanie Rice

LoveWaterDayTrainingMeThink

I would say if you're young, if you're a teenager, act in plays, as many plays as you can. It's an amazing way to build your craft and an amazing way to build your presence.

Steve Zissis

AmazingYouYoungSayBuildWay

Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.

Michael Trucco

JusticeCriminal JusticeNeverSanta

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

ManJealousyPeopleWorldSmallWay

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'

Mitt Romney

GoodPeopleAmericanLookSaidSame

I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.

Jason Bateman

BusinessCareFeelBackFortunate

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