Middle Quotes

Animales depend on us to take care of them.

Such a nice ring…Dead Furry Friends Animal Shelter…so warm and comforting.

Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought “stay” mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he’d already taken off with Alma’s heart.

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago?

See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.

All my life I’ve lived a beautiful lie. The governor’s son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.

What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

I know Verona as I do my own body.

Luck is my middle name, " said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.

...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.

The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.

It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

It was one flickering ember that was almost smothered to death daily. But it just wouldn’t quit… it was hope.

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty...she is smart. -Mackenzie

The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT.“That means, ” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.