Ishmael Beah Quotes

What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.

Ishmael Beah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: November 23, 1980

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FamilyWarChildMeYouKnow

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

WorkTimeI AmPeoplePerception

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

Jeremy Stoppelman

MindYouWantStumbleSomething

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

John Logan

LiveI AmPeopleMeWritingEnjoy

Mania is a wonderful feeling.

Jeff Bridges

FeelingWonderfulWonderful Feeling

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Merle Shain

ThankfulBlessingThanksgivingAct

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

John Thune

ChildrenBattleGrandchildrenCountry

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

AgeMyselfMenMeLegalHands

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Tom Cotton

AmbitionHumanKindsHuman Beings

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

Russell Pearce

PeopleConstitutionAmericanLawyers

Actors were the first people to accept me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

PeopleMeAcceptFirstWere

I am not the sort of person who divests myself of everything that came before I came to Australia. I want to take all the knowledge and experiences I gained when I was in England and put it at the service of Australia because I have to bring something to Australia - not just money but myself.

Miriam Margolyes

KnowledgeMyselfServiceMoneyI Am

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

SoulBodyLikeFeedsLives

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