Dear Mr Henshaw Quotes

#1. 'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

Beverly Cleary

#2. I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Michael Morpurgo

#3. Plans are just dreams until they're executed.

Dennis Lehane

#4. When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Death is the great equalizer

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#6. God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin

Francis Chan

#7. That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

Kirsty Logan

#8. With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#9. I don't want to go through this. I don't want to be without her. I don't want to miss her like I do, longing for her taste, her touch, her sounds. I don't want to be reborn in this new world, a world that means nothing in her absence. I don't want to be in this life without her.

Laurelin Paige

#10. A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

David Halberstam

#11. I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

Bill O'Reilly

#12. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.

Emanuel Lasker