Nctj Portfolio Quotes

#1. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.

Penny Reid

#2. As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

Nick Lowe

#3. When I look at you, you know what I see?"
I met her gaze, finding it suddenly hard to breathe.
"I see the guy who saw me when no one else did," she said. "That's what matters to me. That's who you are.

Cindi Madsen

#4. When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

Keith Richards

#5. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

William Shakespeare

#6. I want you to choose me, Addie," he whispers. "I want this to be real.

Kasie West

#7. These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

Chamillionaire

#8. Will slam poems and I slam doors.

Colleen Hoover

#9. I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. You're dead and you have to accept it.

Alice Sebold

#11. It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

Ray Bradbury

#13. What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

Michel De Montaigne