Quotes About Being Exposed To The World

#1. Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.

Lauren Beukes

#2. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes and the stars though his soul" - Victor Hugo

Alex Flinn

#3. See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. - George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

George W. Bush

#4. I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

Per Petterson

#5. I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

N. Scott Momaday

#6. Children born deaf of deaf parents have no language delay at all: being exposed to Sign from birth enables a baby to develop as full a vocabulary as the hearing, not just to describe the world, but to manipulate abstract concepts.

Anonymous

#7. To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

William Shakespeare

#8. My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

Valorie Curry

#9. Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was - What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks oneself this question; at thirty-nine we say, I wish Fate hadn't made me this sort of man.

Jerome K. Jerome

#11. The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

Janet Fitch

#12. No wonder my family left me. They were right. Look at me. I truly am a monster.

Pepper Winters

#13. Everyone loves a murder, eh? Villains in the night, tragic heroines splattered in gore. Better than an opera. Bloody vultures.

Viola Carr

#14. It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

Robin Black

#15. I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

Maximillian Degenerez

#17. The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

Robert Ben Garant