Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

Hope is universal.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeUniversal

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

John Gurdon

MemoryBrainThinkUnderstandSee

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Alvaro Enrigue

WordsThinkLanguageAlienTarget

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

GreatFastHotBattlesRussiaOut

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

Shonda Rhimes

HomeTimeDayPeopleDoneFirst

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

Tom Rath

WorkGoodAmerican DreamSleepSweet

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Robert D. Kaplan

HistoryLongYouLookNationEmpire

Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks.

Rosamund Pike

WomenReachLooksStopWillNever

After it was sewn back on, they did a proper job of it, and now it's OK. It looks a little distorted, and the nail has not grown fully back yet, but I'm thankful I still have my thumb, and I can still do my horn sign.

Ronnie James Dio

ThankfulJobBackI CanLooksNow

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Romesh Gunesekera

ThinkBecomeWriteWouldKnewTried

I'm very emotional and vulnerable.

Julia Michaels

EmotionalVeryVulnerable

Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.

Jazz Jennings

LifeGirlSchoolParentsMeMy Life

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

DayWithoutAcademicMayPolitician

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