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Own Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along…
- Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your…
- At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept…
- I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
- I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
- Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their…
- All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your…
- No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily…
- When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest…
- I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for…
- As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own…
- She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
- Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to…
- Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
- It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party…
- When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one…
- And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of…
- But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making…
- by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a…
- I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson