Sounder Book Quotes

#1. Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Sometimes when you're struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist.

Truth Devour

#3. As Samuel Johnson said, To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. Art boy is obviously intimidated. You're like the sun and he's squinting up at you, barely able to see because of your blinking radiance

Jody Gehrman

#5. Let's give the president some due.

Mark Shields

#6. The search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.

John O'Donohue

#7. Whether you are with those you love or alone, you are contributing to Christmas, in your own way.

Eleesha

#8. So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

Malcolm Turnbull

#9. If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Alden Ehrenreich

#11. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

Mary J. Miller

#12. A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

Dito Montiel

#13. Apparently this was based on postings on the Internet, and I thought it all ridiculous, not quite sure who these Ripperologists were. I joked that their threat brought to mind Klingons in formation ready to fire upon the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Patricia Cornwell

#14. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Dalai Lama

#15. Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being.

Richard Dawkins