Nemmers Prize Quotes

#1. Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Rose shifted her shopping bag off her lap and with a grunt levered her ponderous body upright; she smiled broadly at me, and with a cheery "Ta Gert, ta girls," she waddled towards the exit while I eased my shoulders in relief from the confining pressure of her body. God, what a huge woman.

E.R. Braithwaite

#3. Cats learned how to fly that evening,...

Obert Skye

#4. I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.

Miranda Emmerson

#5. When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Stevie Wonder

#6. As Confucius says, Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

Jacob Ruppert