Silverstein Quotes

• Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

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  George Pataki

  Betrayed   Silverstein   Larry  

  574

• How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

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  Stephanie Klein

  Friendship   Real Friends   Cutting  

  4087

• When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.

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  Richard Rohr

  Children   Book   Fall  

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

  1988

• I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.

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  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Lying   Gold   Faces  

  "Islamic Figure In New Tirade Against Jews" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

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• I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

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  Taylor Swift

  Kids   Writing   Men  

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