Mo'ne Davis Quotes

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

I don't have many easy songs.

I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.