Summer Reading Programs Quotes

#1. Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

Darell Hammond

#2. I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

Mark Wahlberg

#3. There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

Paul Conrad

#4. After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Scott Lynch

#6. I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

Mahmoud Darwish

#7. I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,

Wilkie Collins

#8. Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.

Jaime Camil

#9. I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

Steven Pinker

#10. Children make your life important.

Erma Bombeck

#11. What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

Michael Bloomberg

#12. A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

#13. Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?"
"Does it matter?" said Wolf, tossing away his bone.
"I'm only making conversation."
"I'd prefer silence," Wolf said, a growl in his tone.

Marissa Meyer