Top 17 Gingersnap Quotes
#1. For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black.
Jerry Spinelli
#2. If there is such a thing as a universal
and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window
it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.
Clare Vanderpool
#3. We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.
Thomas Sowell
#5. Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out of Seth Moreno's mouth: Want to come?
Karen Thompson Walker
#6. Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.
Ben Carson
#7. I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable,
Gavin McInnes
#8. There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
Jean De La Bruyere
#9. He's so happy," Eliot said dryly. "It's like he cooked something and it came out looking like the picture in the cookbook.
Lev Grossman
#10. Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush
#11. As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.
Mao Zedong
#12. Only a writer will hold conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves we talk to the people we created from nothing.
Joseph Eastwood
#13. St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
J.K. Rowling
#15. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
Charles Darwin
#17. What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo Ishiguro
