Natalie Babbitt Quotes

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Natalie Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 28, 1932 - October 31, 2016

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I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Jim Morris

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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Melvin Maddocks

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Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

Sidney Crosby

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One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

Robin Hayes

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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Mary Douglas

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Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.

Martti Ahtisaari

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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

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I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

Chuck Berry

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I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

Brendan Iribe

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If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

William Goldman

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The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

Sheldon Jackson

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