Jeannette Walls quote: "I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday."

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
JEANNETTE WALLS

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little mo...
JEANNETTE WALLS

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't co...
JEANNETTE WALLS

So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You h...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
JEANNETTE WALLS

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
JEANNETTE WALLS

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or ev...
JEANNETTE WALLS

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
JEANNETTE WALLS

I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.
JEANNETTE WALLS

What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming,...
JEANNETTE WALLS

If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I not...
JEANNETTE WALLS

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look for...
JEANNETTE WALLS

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize wh...
JEANNETTE WALLS

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute...
JEANNETTE WALLS

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If y...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn&#...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
JEANNETTE WALLS

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your star...
JEANNETTE WALLS

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
JEANNETTE WALLS

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that...
JEANNETTE WALLS

The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mot...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the windo...
JEANNETTE WALLS

When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us abo...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behav...
JEANNETTE WALLS

There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potentia...
JEANNETTE WALLS

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bun...
JEANNETTE WALLS

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man
JEANNETTE WALLS

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushi...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
JEANNETTE WALLS

Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
JEANNETTE WALLS

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
JEANNETTE WALLS

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I hate Erma," I told Mom...
"You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one p...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who li...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good fo...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the pl...
JEANNETTE WALLS

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of c...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
JEANNETTE WALLS

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
JEANNETTE WALLS

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one...
JEANNETTE WALLS

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
JEANNETTE WALLS

I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't a...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to ha...
JEANNETTE WALLS

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
JEANNETTE WALLS

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age w...
JEANNETTE WALLS

A lady's hair is her crowning glory
JEANNETTE WALLS

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure ...
JEANNETTE WALLS

The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS

If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
JEANNETTE WALLS

They have a great coaching staff and their 98 percent graduation rate really convinced me,
ANDREW WALLS

It just felt like home to me. I took my other visits just to make sure, ... I didn't silent verbal [...
ANDREW WALLS

They kept passing the phone on to every one of their coaches, all the way down to [head coach] Pete ...
ANDREW WALLS

[Sunday night] I got about 20 phone calls from players and coaches,
ANDREW WALLS

but I couldn't see myself being a Gator.
ANDREW WALLS

It's the University of Notre Dame,
ANDREW WALLS

The prevalence of severe allergic reactions seems to be increasing throughout the world, but there i...
ANDREW WALLS

It was super exciting, and the best thing is, no one died. We're in it for the science and the intri...
CHRISTIAN WALLS

Had school been in session, we would have lost half that generation.
CHRISTIAN WALLS

This game stands out for the simple reason we are playing Valdosta.
JAY WALLS

We have told Scott that it doesn't matter who we are playing. He has to have poise, protect the foot...
JAY WALLS

No. 1 (Demetrius James) is an outstanding running back. He has good vision and he runs hard and fast...
JAY WALLS

They are much better than their record. They are 3-2, but we think of them as a 5-0 team.
JAY WALLS

We've had to preach to be aggressive, but to do it within the context of our offensive system. We ca...
JAKE WALLS

I'm proud of him. He really came out and played well today. We need him to score to beat teams. He i...
JAKE WALLS

It's hard to go into a game like that without all of your bullets.
JAKE WALLS

It worked for a little while. We slowed every thing down, but it was too hard to hold onto the ball ...
JAKE WALLS

Nothing rattles him. He's just a leader. Any kind of situation, he's pretty much ready for it.
LENNY WALLS

It really doesn't limit you from doing anything. It just doesn't allow you to overextend, which I do...
LENNY WALLS

It's nothing to get hyped about. I should be in practice in a couple days.
LENNY WALLS

It's already behind me. It's not how you start, it's how you finish.
LENNY WALLS

Don't count 2-4 (Bailey's number) being out just yet.
LENNY WALLS

I know what he's going through. His isn't as bad as mine. His slipped out and popped back in. My sho...
LENNY WALLS

We've been looking forward to Miami and this opening game all off-season. It's what we talk about. S...
LENNY WALLS

I will regain my 'A' game. I will keep going.
LENNY WALLS

I thought he showed he was ready. We were fortunate to have athletic safeties like Sam Brandon.
LENNY WALLS

I was telling them how emotional a game this was for me and how important it is. It's just a really ...
LINDSAY WALLS

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed rol...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating huma...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that a...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorab...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species.
JEANNETTE DESOR

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go
JEANNETTE RANKIN

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive-only the rat does as well.
JEANNETTE DESOR

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possib...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You know, at this juncture, all we can do is pray it doesn't come this way and tear us up.
JEANNETTE RUBOYIANES

They're involved in that a lot; it'll be a class project.
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER

We love to include letters and cards, because no matter what we send them, ... the letters and the c...
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER

We're strong in the middle of the field, but weak on both sides. It's a matter of how fast the young...
JEANNETTE IRELAND

We are learning more hockey instead of battling the field and learning the bumps.
JEANNETTE IRELAND

He knew that (the rules) and still took a key and went in there. So we are absolutely not going to u...
JEANNETTE CHRISTOS

I don't have time to baby-sit every single person. When you go through training and people don't wan...
JEANNETTE CHRISTOS

I don't know how to live any place else. We were born and raised in a small community, Spanish commu...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO

Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO

We don't know. If they tell you you can't live there anymore, then what? We looked at living here, b...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO

The land upon which the goddesses descended –the land that was the locus of the divine activity �...
JONATHAN L. WALLS

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serv...
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

As we mature in faith, our willingness is tested, expanded, and refined. We become more conscious of...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE

Do not expect trust to appear suddenly and in a state of completion. Trust grows gradually as we ven...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE

The opportunity to tell our story unhindered, uninterrupted is rare. Most of the time people are so ...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE

We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enable...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
...
JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

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