Virginia Hamilton Quotes

#1. Regarding the mantra ... "There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

Steve Shaw

#2. Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Argus Hamilton

#3. You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

Virginia Hamilton

#4. To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

Virginia Hamilton

#5. Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

Gerald Kersh

#6. I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

Taylor Kinney

#7. Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

#9. The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

Virginia Hamilton

#10. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.

Jerry Pinkney

#11. While other founding fathers were reared in tidy New England villages or cosseted on baronial Virginia estates, Hamilton grew up in a tropical hellhole of dissipated whites and fractious slaves, all framed by a backdrop of luxuriant natural beauty. On

Ron Chernow

#12. At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Sid Waddell

#13. You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

J.K. Rowling

#14. Instead of replying with my usual open-your-mind speech, I send love to my mother. Mom, I love you even though you are a critical, unforgiving horror show. This casserole sucks, but I like the way you roasted the walnuts.

A.S. King

#15. People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... '

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#16. A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

Chester Barnard

#17. The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Virginia Hamilton

#18. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

Virginia Hamilton

#19. I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Robert Duvall

#20. It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#21. 'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.

Virginia Henley

#22. I can't explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

Virginia Hamilton

#23. But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#24. This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

#25. But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

Jay Roach

#26. For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

Virginia Hamilton

#27. As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

Fadi Ghandour

#28. Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

Virginia Hamilton