Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Patricia Reilly Giff

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FamilyWritingWorldLovedThree

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

John Abizaid

WalkPowerfulEarthAfricaNation

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

John Berger

HomeManLanguagePlaceSayHuman

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

Matt Roper

FamilyGodLookingArmyEnoughNow

In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.

John Ralston Saul

WinterWaterTravelUnitySaying

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

Martin Parr

WorldTourismIndustryBiggest

I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

Mirko Cro Cop

FightingDifferenceCage

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

Lukas Haas

LoveFunPeopleCoolHaving Fun

I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.

Louis Theroux

PeopleThinkFeelingWaySystem

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Joss Stone

TimePeopleYoungForgetNowFirst

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

Drea De Matteo

BestChildGivingGiving UpUpHis

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

Christopher Guest

MoneyControlYouLoseMorePoint

I think, more and more in fashion now, diversity is so important because that's what the customer is.

Christian Siriano

DiversityFashionThinkCustomerNow

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