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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1918 - September 6, 2007

Topics

Children Think Grow Alive Accept Up

I don't say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever.

John Delaney

Colleagues Bad Say Republican Things

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Jeff Bingaman

Work Family Society Retirement Plan

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Tony Campolo

Family Values Party Say Republican

Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.

Rumer Willis

Life Good Beautiful Yourself People

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Martin Seligman

Process Never Torture Would Provide

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

Acting Enemy Living Intelligent Us

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

Julia Roberts

People Me I Can Go Always Everyone

There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.

Christine Todd Whitman

Change Science Believe Political

The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.

Brian Grazer

Morning Hair Single Image Vertical

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

Brian K. Vaughan

Hope Children Better You Changes

She is absolutely inspiring. Malala is a vindication of our struggle.

Asma Jahangir

Struggle She Absolutely Our

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Sylvester Stallone

Teacher School Me High School End