American Quotes

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mist

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.