Adora Svitak Quotes

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

Adora Svitak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1997

Topics

ChildrenFunEmpathyParentsThink

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

John Templeton

GodQuestionEveryoneAnythingUs

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

John Prescott

GovernmentDoingNowGotBeenMajor

I'm quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up - I'm a brown belt - and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other.

Suki Waterhouse

GirlMeSisterGrowing UpStrongUp

I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her.

Storm Reid

WorkLoveHopeGreatPersonShe

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

BreadMoreMayFavoriteButterYour

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Roddy Doyle

PeopleBelieveI BelieveTalkSee

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

Rufus Wainwright

SingingSingLikeMaybeMahler

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

Mike Birbiglia

SadPeopleHomeworkBackDownWill

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Michael Korda

PeaceWarWorldEldersChangesSide

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Dolly Parton

LoveHomeCookingTravelHusband

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

Alicia Garza

PoliticsThoughtMoreWouldThan

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

William Tyndale

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