Sawyer Quotes

• Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

  Mark Twain

  Feet, Long, Yards

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Order

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Work, Yoga

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

  Mark Twain

  Logic, Tradition, Harder

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.

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• For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

  Bruce Jenner

  Purpose

  "Bruce Jenner: 'I'm a Woman'" by Sean Dooley, Margaret Dawson, Lana Zak, Christina Ng, Lauren Effron, Meghan Keneally, abcnews.go.com. April 24, 2015.

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• Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Order

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.617, GENERAL PRESS

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• But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Long, Shapes

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.82, MobileReference

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• Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

  Bruce Jenner

  Heart, Mind, Persons

  "Bruce Jenner: 'I'm a Woman'" by Ruthie Friedlander, www.elle.com. April 25, 2015.

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• I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Boys, Forgiving

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

  Diane Sawyer

  Space, Follow Your Heart, Purpose

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• My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.

  Diane Sawyer

  Beautiful, Dad, Home

  "Diane Sawyer Kicks Off Oprah Winfrey Network’s ‘Master Class’ Series", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

  Diane Sawyer

  Beautiful, Dad, Home

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• I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

  Thomas J. Grasso

  Firefly, Katniss, Catching Fire

  Last words, March 20, 1995.

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• If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

  Michael Gurian

  Boys, Trying, Alive

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• I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Boys, Mind

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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Rivers

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Character, Tunes, Kind

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Museums, Names, Frost

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• If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.

  Abbi Glines

  Attention, Arms, Distraction

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.12, Abbi Glines

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• Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, Aunt, President

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• Heat skittered through her belly, then directly south. “Sawyer.” In answer, he brought his head up and kissed her. Deep, hungry, tasting her in a purposely slow, thorough manner before pulling back to once again look into her eyes. Oh, God. “Sawyer, what are we doing?” she whispered. He shook his head. “No f#cking clue.

  Jill Shalvis

  Eye, Looks, Answers

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

  Abbi Glines

  Important, Mouths, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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