Shiners Quotes

#1. Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Andre Benjamin

#2. In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

Cheryl Rainfield

#3. Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.

Eduardo Galeano

#4. It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance, said Howard.

Suzanne Collins

#5. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Lisa Locke

#6. I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#7. I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

James E. Faust

#8. When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad ... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Gary Lineker

#9. Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

Paul Engle