Poppy Field Quotes

#1. I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

#2. The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.

Robert Cheeke

#3. The power of communication is in the details.

Susan Ford Collins

#4. By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Jane Leavy

#5. Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I'm stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.
- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)

Diane Ackerman

#6. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#7. I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Jose Rizal

#8. You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. I smile bitterly. "Let's not forget who killed her. You destroy all that you touch."
"Well," he whispers back, returning my smile. "Then we have much in common.

Marie Lu

#10. Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

Michaela DePrince

#11. And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

William Alexander Percy

#12. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

#13. The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

John Lamb Lash

#14. An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles