Grasshopper Jungle Quotes

#1. But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

#2. There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

Andrew Smith

#3. If you're going to have an asthma attack in the surf, I strongly recommend you do so in Nantucket.

Jennifer Crusie

#4. I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor.

Andrew Smith

#5. You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.

Andrew Smith

#6. The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.

Andrew Smith

#7. All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.

Nikola Tesla

#8. I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

Andrew Smith

#9. History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.

Andrew Smith

#10. Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian.

Andrew Smith

#11. I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

Andrew Smith

#12. The world had gone horribly, completely wrong and the only way open to them was to keep walking forwards.

Moira Katson

#13. I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.

Nicole Krauss

#14. Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Federico Fellini