Copper Sun Sharon Draper Quotes

#1. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

David Gemmell

#4. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore

#5. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

Tobsha Learner

#6. Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

Michael Ende

#7. That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#8. Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.

Deb Baker

#9. I love fashion, but I don't really do shopping.

Marie Helvin

#10. Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#11. Who's that, the windbreaker?

Paul Heyman

#12. Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

#13. He rose grumpily, fell to the floor, and crawled. I looked at his exposed butt crack, a dark unkempt abyss that I was falling into. I was short of breath. I felt paralyzed. His asshole was a canyon. This was my 127 hours. I needed to chip away at the rock and get out.

Amy Schumer

#14. The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Caroline Kennedy