Shevvington Quotes

#1. You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.

Caroline B. Cooney

#2. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.

Henry Cloud

#3. I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Gordie Howe

#4. If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. You know where this Yaqui girl is going to be in a few years if she doesn't change? She'll still be there, same as always in her old neighborhood
a nobody with nothing. And guess what? That's her worst fear.

Meg Medina

#6. I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.

Meia Geddes

#7. Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years.

Lleyton Hewitt

#8. Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

Gautama Buddha

#9. I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#10. Poor Twatwaffle. Thank God all good llamas go to heaven.

Karina Halle

#11. One of the things I love about God's Word is that it has no expiration date.

Patsy Clairmont

#12. I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

Walter Dean Myers