James Berry Quotes

#1. I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Malorie Blackman

#2. If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#3. Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#4. Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.

Michael Hibbard

#5. There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.

Ishmael Reed

#6. I dont believe in the Devil, but if I did I should think of him as the trainer who drives Heaven to break its own records.

Robert Musil

#7. I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

Shane Warne

#8. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow

Dan Rather

#9. Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen

#10. We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

James Young

#11. The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different' ... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

Gary Holland

#12. You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

Bill Wyman

#13. We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

Daniel Dennett

#14. And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

Laura Pritchett

#15. We are, all of us, our own phoenixes, if we choose to be. Out of the ashes, we can be reborn.

Christie Golden

#16. I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

Erik King

#17. Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

#18. All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Oliver Goldsmith

#19. I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

Tammy Faye Bakker