Jennifer L. Holm quotes
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“My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.”
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“Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.”
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“Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.”
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“This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.”
-- Jennifer L. HolmSource : Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Boston Jane: The Claim”, p.107, Yearling
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“What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.”
-- Jennifer L. HolmSource : Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Turtle in Paradise”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers
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“Comics can really help kids become confident readers. They can teach kids the fundamentals - inference, tracking from left to right, learning how dialogue works. I want everyone to know what useful tools comics can be in helping and encouraging our kids to read.”
-- Jennifer L. HolmSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
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“The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.”
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Source : "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.
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Source : "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.
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