Jennifer L. Holm quotes

“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.”
-- Jennifer L. Holm

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“Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.”
-- Jennifer L. Holm

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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.”
-- Jennifer L. Holm

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“This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.”
-- Jennifer L. Holm

Source : 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. Holm

Source : 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. Holm

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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“Libraries help you to dream!”
-- Jennifer L. Holm

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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”

“The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”

“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”

“The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.”

“The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.”

Source : "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

“There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.”

“In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.”

Source : "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

“Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.”

“I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!”