Milkweed Jerry Spinelli Quotes

#1. The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#3. We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Robert Collier

#4. Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

Desiree Rogers

#6. Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Jerry Spinelli

#7. Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love.

Rick Gekoski

#8. This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

#11. He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

Jerry Spinelli