Top 100 Cooney Quotes
#1. I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
Larry Holmes
#2. It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.
Larry Holmes
#3. He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.
Caroline B. Cooney
#4. I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
Caroline B. Cooney
#5. Listen to the sea ... it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.
Caroline B. Cooney
#6. Kahnawake
November 1704
Temperature 44 degrees
"They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes."
Sometimes! thought Mercy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#7. Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#8. I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Gerry Cooney
#9. I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.
Caroline B. Cooney
#10. I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
Gerry Cooney
#11. it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just
Ellen Cooney
#12. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
#13. Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'
Joan Ganz Cooney
#14. But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.
Caroline B. Cooney
#16. Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary.
It Mattered.
Caroline B. Cooney
#17. If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.
Gerry Cooney
#18. I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.
Gerry Cooney
#19. I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.
Barbara Cooney
#20. She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate.
Caroline B. Cooney
#21. It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
Caroline B. Cooney
#22. You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us."
"I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren."
"Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.
Caroline B. Cooney
#23. Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#24. She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower.
Ellen Cooney
#26. All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney
#27. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
Caroline B. Cooney
#30. The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
Joan Ganz Cooney
#31. I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#32. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
Joan Ganz Cooney
#33. But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
Caroline B. Cooney
#34. Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.
Caroline B. Cooney
#35. Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition.
Kara Cooney
#36. then the bottom fell out of everything that used to have a bottom, and now she's expected to kill her own plants. At
Ellen Cooney
#37. My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.
C.S.E. Cooney
#38. I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
Caroline B. Cooney
#40. Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Gerry Cooney
#41. She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.
Caroline B. Cooney
#42. People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
Caroline B. Cooney
#44. She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.
Caroline B. Cooney
#45. Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
Caroline B. Cooney
#46. I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
Gerry Cooney
#48. I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry.
Caroline B. Cooney
#51. My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
Barbara Cooney
#52. You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.
Gerry Cooney
#53. You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.
Caroline B. Cooney
#54. I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
Caroline B. Cooney
#55. Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.
Caroline B. Cooney
#56. There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#57. If I were a seagull
I wouldn't have to stick around
If people argued- I would fly off,
swerve, wheel, dip, scream.
a thousand wings of company if I have friends
two strong wings of my own
If I don't
Caroline B. Cooney
#58. The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'.
Caroline B. Cooney
#59. She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.
Caroline B. Cooney
#60. I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney
#61. You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
#63. I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#64. I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Caroline B. Cooney
#65. I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#66. People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
Caroline B. Cooney
#67. But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#68. When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.
Gerry Cooney
#69. I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney
#70. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
Barbara Cooney
#71. How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.
Caroline B. Cooney
#72. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#73. In Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.
Caroline B. Cooney
#74. And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon.
Caroline B. Cooney
#75. Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
Gerry Cooney
#76. Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman!
Caroline B. Cooney
#77. I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
Caroline B. Cooney
#78. My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#79. More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection.
Caroline B. Cooney
#81. Who was Florinda, and why did she faint so often that she needed a special couch on which to do it?
Caroline B. Cooney
#82. It's not whether children learn from television, it's what children learn from television ... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#83. You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
Gerry Cooney
#85. If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
Caroline B. Cooney
#86. What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!
Caroline B. Cooney
#87. By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.
Gerry Cooney
#88. Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Caroline B. Cooney
#90. How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own?
Caroline B. Cooney
#91. Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.
Caroline B. Cooney
#92. I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
Caroline B. Cooney
#94. I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful ...
Caroline B. Cooney
#95. She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.
Caroline B. Cooney
#96. The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney
#97. The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.
Caroline B. Cooney
#98. What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.
Caroline B. Cooney
#99. I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
Gerry Cooney
#100. Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice.
Caroline B. Cooney
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