quotes about My Girl

“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”

“Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”

“Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.”

“The public library is where place and possibility meet.”

“Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.”

“Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

“I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.”

“If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?”

“There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.”

Source : Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

“If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.”