"Most of the mess that is called history……" — Jennifer Donnelly
"Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread."
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106 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly has 106 quotes on this site.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it…
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but…
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse…
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and…
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away…
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of…
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing…
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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The…
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She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She…
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More Bread Quotes
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one of 1,259 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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