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“I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.”
Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.
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“In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.”
Source : Song: In My Daughter's Eyes, Album: Martina, 2003
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“Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!”
Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.
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“I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.”
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“Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.”
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“Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.”
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“A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.”
Source : Irving Bacheller (2008). “D'ri and I”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com