Quotes About Uniqueness

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

Do you know what it is you're most afraid of?" "Yes." "What?" "I'm afraid of being forgotten," Bob said, and having admitted that, wondered if it was true. He said, "I'm afraid I'll end up living a life like everyone else's and me being Bob Ford won't matter one way or the other.

As we carry our baby inside us, we know almost nothing about it that distinguishes it from anyone else's baby--except that we love it unlike any other baby.

El amor consiste en encontrar a alguien con quien compartir tus rarezas.

Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. If we were to apply this visionary concept to education, it would be pointless to compare one child to another. Instead, all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child's developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

I'd been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted," she says.

I'M GLAD I'M NOT PERFECT—I'D BE BORED TO DEATH.

Some people are one way and some people are another and that's that.

There's as many ways to live as people.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

He is a guy without collective importance. He is just an individual.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Being different was my cross to bear, but being aware of it was my compensation.

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but them it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own peculiar sweetness.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. … If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. ... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either.

I wanted to be alone in an altogether unusual way, a new way. Quite the contrary of what you think: that is to say, without myself and, to be precise, with a stranger at hand.