43 Quotes by Richard Peck

If you’re going to read minds, start with a simple one.

Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn’t tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

I don’t think grandma’s a very good influence on us.

Aunt Agnes said, “It’s hard to make a good Christian out of a cat.

She had eyes in the back of her heart.

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be” -Archer.

Stay away from people who don’t know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who’ll want to label you. People who’ll try to write their fears on your face.