Robert Coles Quotes

#1. Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

Robert Coles

#2. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#3. William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United

John Taliaferro

#4. Ambitious intelligence [is] a force that can demolish the 'heart's reasons' - namely, a warm empathy, a considerateness toward others, a willingness, even, to let them become one's teachers, however humble or troubled their lives.

Robert Coles

#5. We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we share with one another through language.

Robert Coles

#6. Instead, I would take a long, lonely journey toward adulthood with the dogged faith of the pioneer who has realized that there is no promised land but still holds out hope that the destination will be someplace better than here. On

Hope Jahren

#7. I have no wrong, where I can claim no right, Naught ta'en me fro, where I have nothing had, Yet of my woe I cannot so be quite; Namely, since that another may be glad With that, that thus in sorrow makes me sad.' WYATT. Margaret

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. I used to know a woman named Anita Hurl," Lizbeth said. "Get it? I need to hurl?

Deb Caletti

#9. Daisy glanced up into her husband's sparkling eyes. "You're being scandalous, Mr. Swift," she whispered. "This is nothing," Matthew replied in an undertone, his expression soft with love. "I'm saving my worst behavior for tonight.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

Richelle Mead