Walter Dean Myers Quotes

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014

Topics

PeopleWritingYoungWantWrite

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

Jim McKay

GoodMoneyYourselfCoolFeel Good

Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

Jennette McCurdy

GreatHealthySheEatBigKids

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

John James Audubon

LifeFamilyEyesGratefulI AmMe

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stephen Fry

DieLoseNeverOldProfessorsJust

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

Sinead Burke

MeSocietyEnvironmentPersonForget

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

ReligionMassesOpiumMerely

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

PeopleThinkBetterMoviesHollywood

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

Martin Rees

WaterFoodEnergyPressureResources

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Marv Levy

PoetryMeReadingFirstStarted

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

Joyce Meyer

GodGreatResponsibilityBestEffort

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart

CharacterBodyBornHeadAdultLike

Working out is so mentally and physically important.

Payal Kadakia

ImportantOutWorkingMentally

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