Kate > Kate's Quotes

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
― H.G. Wells

“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”
― H.G. Wells

“I say, you do have a heart!"

"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Behind every great woman... is another great woman.”
― Kate Hodges, I Know a Woman: The Inspiring Connections Between the Women Who Have Shaped Our World

“Yes we are angry, yes we are making a noise about it, and yes, we are hungry for change. We are harpies.”
― Kate Hodges

“We will not wait to be offered the leftovers from the feast. We will arrive in a whirl of wings and talons and pick off what belongs to us. Yes, we are angry, yes we are making a noise about it, and yes, we are hungry for change. We are harpies.”
― Kate Hodges, Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females