Newbery Award Quotes

#1. 'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.

Cynthia Kadohata

#2. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Rumi

#3. This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

Bryant A. Loney

#4. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Vicente Fox

#5. If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars.

Ethan Nadelmann

#6. This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

Kathryn Lasky

#7. The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Banana Yoshimoto

#8. You don't need right - if you have strength

L.J.Smith

#9. What defines us is not how we fall but how we land.

Pam Godwin

#10. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles Kettering

#11. Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#12. Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. [Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.

J.M. Coetzee

#14. One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

Delia Ephron

#15. All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

Lois McMaster Bujold