American Author Quotes

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

Then when in silence thou doest walk,
Nor being round with whom to talk;
When thou art on the mighty deep,
And do in quiet action sleep;
If we no more on earth do meet,
Forget me not.

Human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

Sally Carrighar

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

MaryJanice Davidson

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Lloyd Alexander

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That's before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Another reason I wrote Fat Girl is that few writers about fatties write that even thin girls (and women and men) can, behind their bony walls, remain fat. They weigh 110; they think they weigh 200. How this happens is that if a person's been fat and gotten thin and maybe even stayed thin, she doesn't forget she was fat.

There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

Howard Frank Mosher

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Fishel

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

John Jay Chapman

I had a dream... that all babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

Elizabeth McCracken

What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

Michael Eric Dyson

All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

T. Berry Brazelton

Fashion is in ceaseless pursuit of things that are about to look familiar and in uneasy flight from things that have just become a bore.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Utopias last five minutes, to the extent that they happen at all.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease:
Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace
Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

William R. Alger

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

Peter Matthiessen

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Robert Jeffress

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

Richard A. Knaak