113 Quotes by Barbara Johnson

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

The most important things in your home are people.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

violets are God's apology for February ...

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

My karma just ran over my dogma.