Quotes About Discovery

That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.

If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

got dangerously close to my poo corner—something

To the dock!" Kirk replied with a big laugh. "Get it? To the doc!

an excellent reader and was starting a new book that had something to do with pirates and buried treasure. That was interesting to me because I like to bury my treasures (like nuts and other

HUMPHREY'S TOP SECRET SCRIBBLES Sometimes you have to LOOK-LOOK-LOOK To find the very perfect book.

Betty G. Birney

and not in my poo corner),

Betty G. Birney

Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.

There are so many kinds of beauty-have you ever looked in a small hidden pool in a wood, Becky? It's full of beauty, but it's not in the least spectacular, only restful and quiet and never-endingly fascinating.

The world was hers for the reading.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

The fugitives would either move on into Canada or integrate themselves in the Beacon Hill community." "Something else I never knew." "It was a maritime escape route. Many fugitives found freedom that way.

You will lose a love, reject a love, find a love.

Las sergas de Esplandian,

Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,

Once word got out about who he really was, he was sure Wally was going to be ecstatic over never having to publicly acknowledge him again.

Jim Beckwourth,

This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.