getting Quotes

“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.”

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain”

“You must use your mind to get things off your mind.”

“For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for most.”

“Don’t ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one’s going to give it to you.”

″‘Why should I make you new feet? To enable you to escape again from home?’ ‘I promise you,’ said the puppet, sobbing, ‘that for the future I will be good.’ ‘All boys,’ replied Geppetto, ‘when they are bent upon obtaining something, say the same thing.’ ‘I promise you that I will go to school, and that I will study and earn a good character.‘”

″ ‘If we only had a cat!’ sighed the very old woman. ‘A cat?’ asked the very old man. ‘Yes, a sweet little fluffy cat,’ said the very old woman. ‘I will get you a cat, my dear,’ said the very old man.”

″‘Mrs. Baker hates your guts, right?’ I nodded. ‘Then, Holling, you might try getting some.‘”

“I says to myself, if a body can get anything they pray for, why don’t Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can’t the widow get back her silver snuffbox that was stole? Why can’t Miss Watson fat up?”