"Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work."

--

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Children Quotes

“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
“I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.”
“I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.”

Source : Gerald Stern (1981). “The red coal: poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“The world is a grindstone and life is your nose”
“What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.”
“You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.”
“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”
“I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

You may also like:

Benjamin Banneker
Surveyor
Coretta Scott King
Author
Jacqueline Woodson
Writer
Kadir Nelson
Artist
Kirby Larson
Writer
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Writer
Susan Patron
Author
Virginia Hamilton
Author
Jerry Pinkney
Children's book illustrator