FastSaying

If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.


Barbara Colorose

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Our families are great. We come from similar backgrounds, and that gave us more options than people ...
DONALD MCNULTY Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American ...
BOB TAFT We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. I...
ADRIAN GRENIER The Beefeaters are an important part of the football family in the community. If everyone's healthy,...
LARRY HAYLOR It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to com...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN If they're having fun, we're having fun. If they're up there rushing the quarterback like that it ma...
DAVID OVERSTREET It may not be the grandest job. I feel that every street that's clean, that makes it easier for the ...
JOE SALAZAR More than anything, we are concerned to have a healthy community and healthy families.
LILIANA SAHAMI It is really healthy to have so many different combinations and it makes us really hungry when we ge...
TEMEPARA GEORGE My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind...
P. J. O'ROURKE Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us o...
ANNA QUINDLEN We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, n...
DOUG DUCEY That's it. Love makes us all strong.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI I have seen strong person are also weak at some point of time in life. If we understand functioning ...
ARVIND MEHTA It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change peop...
TAYLOR SWIFT If he's healthy, he's going to have a great year. He looked healthy. He looked strong.
JOSH BARD Both those guys did a great job for us. It makes it a lot easier to play defense when your guys thro...
MARC SUYEMATSU Our union will continue to do its job of standing for American working families.
RON CAREY Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes f...
HAZEL ROCHMAN Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes f...
JEAN RHYS If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of...
DANIEL TAMMET I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market...
DAVID OLSON There are so many pioneering families in our city. It's going to be our job to decide which informat...
JAN DELL Let the challenging moment makes you strong & strong. If one takes challenge in his stride,it makes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Muscular Dystrophy affects our family greatly, and it also affects so many other families and what's...
LISA WARD It comes from our seniors having been in the program for four years. They come from great families a...
JODI KORBAS He makes it easier for families and young visitors to immediately understand there are things here f...
MARILYN RUSSELL Healthy shame keeps us grounded. It is a yellow light, warning us of our essential limitations. Heal...
JOHN BRADSHAW The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an...
JUDITH KOHNEN I want to make it very clear, it's not stopping us from our plans. I'm asking for the committee to a...
AMY TSARK That means we do these things not to make money, but to keep our society functioning at a reasonable...
PATTY CLARY We feel our offensive line should be one of our strong points this season. We have four out of five ...
BOBBY CAMPOS Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeo...
VICENTE FOX Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or tha...
HELEN KELLER I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don'...
DOMENICO DOLCE Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center...
IMELDA STAUNTON The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We're like the ancestors who started this country, they came from other countries without documents,...
ELSA RODRIGUEZ Well my families done it everybody I know in my families done it as long as I can remember, it seeme...
JOE MARTIN We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in...
ALBERTO GONZALES Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean...
PAUL HAWKEN Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.
ALAN GERRY If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.
HERM EDWARDS Everett is not as strong as they were in the past. It was a good learning experience for us and it g...
BILL BARRETT It's nice to know that people see what we are doing. I think we do set an example. All of the kids t...
CEDRIC PAYTON This was a big win. We needed to come from behind like that. Our bullpen came in and did a great job...
MATT CRAIG Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness ...
WILLIAM BERNBACH Nothing is more important to our constituents and to our families.
LOIS MURPHY Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it...
IMELDA STAUNTON We've been swinging the bats well, and hopefully that continues. It's nice when they come out swingi...
DENNIS BRAUN I try to insulate myself from any feedback to the strip as [best] I can, because it just makes it ea...
AARON MCGRUDER I try to insulate myself from any feedback to the strip as [best] I can, because it just makes it ea...
AARON MCGRUDER Most of the calories in a healthy diet should come from fruits, vegetables and grain products. That ...
DONNA SHALALA We have some (African-American educators and leaders), but not enough. I know we're trying to add mo...
BARRY PURVIS This is the largest gift in our history and will enable us to help dozens of homeless families for y...
LINDA HALL Shooting is a strong point on our team, and these kids really hustle on defense. If we weren't able ...
MARK WESTER Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM Strong families are vital to strong societies.
GARY HERBERT A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educ...
CHINUA ACHEBE From a financial point of view, this is a healthy development for the communities we serve and our s...
FRED POSTLEWAIT Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSE Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
UNKNOWN Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMAN HESSE We monitor our birds, we test our birds even if they appear healthy. We test the birds, and if we ha...
DAN LENNON It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we sav...
FRANCIS BACON The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disin...
JOSH MCDOWELL They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.
KIPPA Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. BELL In order to be successful in our efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring, we count...
BOB GALLAGHER I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than unde...
CHARLIE GONZALEZ This makes it significantly easier for us to take ownership and control of our own health care infor...
LINDA REBROVICK It's extremely, extremely exciting to finally do something as important as Healthy Kids Day at our t...
CRAIG DRUCKER It brings it all back. It makes us sick. We feel so much for the families. We sit and cry.
LORRAINE RANDALL Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.
ANNA TODD So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help ou...
JOHNNY WEIR Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
ANNE FRANK Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It ma...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, b...
CANELO ALVAREZ And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It...
HILLARY CLINTON No. I don't like being called Cinderella any more. It makes me mad. They can call us Cinderella if t...
BOO DAVIS What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we...
JOE PATERNO The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to ...
AMY GOODMAN I didn't want anyone to think that they didn't have a job because they didn't have a place to live, ...
DIANE BROWN Paradoxically, diseases also play an important role in healthy ecosystem functioning. These changes ...
ANDREW DOBSON Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - ...
MICHAEL MORIARTY If there are no lives to be saved, if there's not really property in the home, we'll assume less ...
JASON NELSON Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON [The schools need positive support; they need positive comments from community members, Morris said....
ANTHONY MORRIS People begin to feel more distant and disconnected, and often times, they begin to feel unsafe. We h...
HAL HEIDT If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil di...
GLENN ANTIZZO A job is a very healthy thing to do.
DAVID SOUL To have an experienced quarterback, it just makes your coaching job a whole lot easier,
BOBBY JOHNSON I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our c...
MIKE PENCE As we come to the end of the calendar year, industry conditions remain healthy, ... Processor and op...
MICHAEL DELL Only with this team. These guys are unbelievable. We've got such a whole team here that it makes our...
JEFF BLAIR It's like they're playing for all of us. Watching George Mason come this far makes me feel better ab...
HENRY OLAWOYE We just have to let the game come to us. We've got to execute and do everything right. Our offensive...
GREG PEACOCK Our people have been so important to us. We thought it was important to help them find their next jo...
DAN SAVAGE

More Barbara Colorose

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
BARBARA COLOROSE The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. The...
BARBARA JORDAN