Quotes About Johnny Tremain

#1. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.

Jennifer Armstrong

#2. His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.

Tony Evans

#3. Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

Mike Huckabee

#4. So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.

Tommy Cooper

#5. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen E. Schrempp

#7. In your day a guy named Noah was building an Ark.

Suzanne Wrightt

#8. If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there.
from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

Chris Van Allsburg

#9. Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

Milan Kundera