3,439 Quotes About Words

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

I didn't belongBecause maybe I never wantedTo belong. When everybody else danced and sang, I sat silently in my room with books,Books, and books. I used books for self-defenseAnd as stealth bombers: I am better than youBecause I have read more books than you; I amBeloved by these books; I am beloved by words.

Words set the tone for how the table is set.

Words set the tone for how the table is set, and how the food will be digested.

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are.

Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul.