Kate DiCamillo Quotes

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1964

Topics

FamilyFatherMeWorldLeavingSame

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ArtPersonalityPoetryEverything

Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

Andrew Shaffer

PeopleGameSuper BowlChristmas

My favorite video to film was 'Work It' because it began the incredible road ahead. Missy was protective and thoughtful of us kids, removing us from the mature scenes and using the clean version when we filmed.

Alyson Stoner

WorkRoadThoughtfulMatureAhead

I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually lost out on many jobs, several jobs, and the complaint that I got was, 'Well, he doesn't fit the mold of a head coach. He doesn't look the part. He's not gonna jump up and down. He's not going to scream.'

Tony Dungy

CoachingLookDownJumpLostKnow

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

Rutina Wesley

LifeHealthReflectionGratefulI Am

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

Mike Yaconelli

HomePeaceFeelWorthYouFeelings

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Lisa Morton

MyselfWritingPressureFeelWorry

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

Lisa Vidal

LoveTimeSoccerPlayThreeStarted

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

Chiang Kai-shek

FutureHopeGreatJusticePeaceMe

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

Chris Matthews

ResponsibilityPeopleBelieveYou

When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.

Bruce Forsyth

LifeBusinessDayChildSlowWish

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

August Krogh

HeartInterestingLongKnowLegs

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