Hush Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

#1. The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. - Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. Well, yeah. Fireworks, the seventh Shy Maiden to dance out of the tree, stuff like that. - Author: Nils Nisse Visser

#3. Nothing in the world is like this-
a bright white page with
pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
the soft hush of it
moving finally
one day
into letters. - Author: Jacqueline Woodson

#4. I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman. - Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

#5. There are innumerable paths one may choose in this life- some that, at first, appear flawed. Yet, if lived with love and honesty, they will always render the greatest fruit. They will serve as a lesson to us all. - Abram - Author: Jennifer DeLucy

#6. The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. - Author: Darrell Royal

#7. You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true - Author: Michael Jackson

#8. They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be. - Author: Gwendoline Christie

#9. Aedion - every breath she took seemed to echo his name. Aedion, Aedion, Aedion. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#10. We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the favor of His help. - Author: Alex Brett Harris

#11. If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. - Author: Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#12. We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students. - Author: Thomas Kean Jr.

#13. [...]one who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer