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Us Quotes by Katherine Paterson
- Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your…
- Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
- Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
- I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
- All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But…
- We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means…
- The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to…
- Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
- The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words…
- ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong