Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Quotes

#1. She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.

Anne Ursu

#2. They say monsters live under beds. They're wrong because our mind is where monsters truly reside. - Kathryn Perez

Kathryn Perez

#3. Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Wangari Maathai

#4. What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Maya Angelou

#5. I am not a titleholder; I don't steal; I don't lie...

Ljupka Cvetanova

#6. The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.

Meredith Duran

#8. In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#9. On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

Sam Kean