Emer Quotes

#1. And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older
she'd liked them. They were reminders
the back, the knee, the achy wrists
they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.

Roddy Doyle

#2. I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers

Stephen Hawking

#3. Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form.

Emer O'Toole

#4. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

Lord Byron

#5. I was making pie.

I didn't usually make pie, but I was waiting for the bread to rise so I could knead it again. I'd woken up with a thirst for violence. Cutting the butter into the flour for pie crust was almost as good as kneading bread.

Penny Reid

#6. He moved so our noses touched. "I'm a human who can become a wolf. Smell is really important to me, and you, Rachel Clancy, smell like mine.

Rebecca Royce

#7. our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.

Emer O'Toole

#8. You think God would let a girl do something special?

Ellen Hopkins

#9. This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...

Margaret Halsey

#10. I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

Temple Grandin

#11. There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Russell Conwell

#13. You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jello Biafra

#14. The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance.

Robert Harris

#15. I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Emer Martin

#16. Religion is the incinerator of the soul -

Emer Martin

#17. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

R.L. Stine

#18. Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
~pg 16; Hattie on change

Ann M. Martin

#19. In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

Orville Wright