Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenDoorWantMoreHumanOwn

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Melissa Etheridge

ChildrenMomToughDivorceHard

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

GirlWithoutWithinAmbitiousMany

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.

Mickey Drexler

HopePeopleYouSayHearingLeave

Over time, Benedictine monasteries appeared around the world, always with the same anomaly: brothers living in obedience, meditation, and faith just beneath the rush of the world.

Michael Paterniti

FaithTimeWorldMeditationLiving

I'm on the Web a lot. I like to play games online. Sometimes I play Sims.

Miranda Cosgrove

PlaySometimesGamesWebLikeLot

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

Lisa Marie Presley

MusicDayClimbThinkWantOne Day

'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'

Doug Liman

TimeHeroTravelTomorrowImpossible

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

Dean Karnazes

TrainingGoRunMarathonUpJust

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

Bobby Orr

PeopleFriendsHelpNew FriendsYou

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

Art Spiegelman

BelieveSomeoneWillRealVinyl

With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice.

Avan Jogia

CharacterVoiceThinkingDoingYou

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

Phil Harris

PeopleSometimesListenWhereWould

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