Kids Octopus Quotes

#1. I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#2. I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

Katharine Weymouth

#3. More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss

Michael J. Sullivan

#4. Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Norton Juster

#5. So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

Arthur J. Deikman

#6. We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point.
I look at Meredith, relaxed in her ivory gown, my sister is all grown up. I'm grateful we did our growing up together.

Steven Rowley

#7. I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

Richard LaGravenese

#8. Is there more to me?
Sure. Kids yell 'albino boy.'
I don't turn around.
Choose the name you answer to.
No one can do that but you.

Nikki Grimes

#9. The woman who defined herself through her writing had become an empty page.

Andrew Wilson

#10. The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Scott Fujita