Scott O'Dell quotes

“More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.”
-- Scott O'Dell

#Home Quotes #Back Home Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.”
-- Scott O'Dell

#Fun Quotes #Animal Quotes #Night Quotes

“Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.”
-- Scott O'Dell

#Running Quotes #Islands Quotes #Blue Quotes

“They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.”
-- Scott O'Dell

#Eye Quotes #Black Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.”
-- Scott O'Dell

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”

“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”

“I don't do office work at home.”

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”

“I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”

“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

“In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

“I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.”

Source : Song: The Bomb, Album: Vagina Diner, 1993