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I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching. -- Kim Edwards
I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success. -- Charles B. Rangel
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. -- Kim Edwards
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality. -- Barack Obama
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know. -- Kim Edwards
After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. -- Kim Edwards
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds. -- Jodi Picoult
I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it. -- Kim Edwards
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain. -- Lloyd Alexander
No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper! -- Lloyd Alexander
And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders. -- Jeffrey Overstreet
Well, lucky you, you've landed in the right nest. Come, come, follow me, young hatchling." -Keeper of the chronicles (Alister)" -- Candace Knoebel
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. -- Sheila Walsh
If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart. -- Penelope Williamson
I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance. -- Ilona Andrews
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys! -- Vance Havner
A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end. -- Simon P
A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end. -- Simon P
Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog! -- Peter Sellers
His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King. -- Terry Pratchett
I'm bad with numbers. My husband is the keeper of the records. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. -- Marlon Brando
We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through. -- Tim Howard
If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices. -- Debbie Ford
I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that. -- Clive Davis
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role. -- Christopher Meledandri
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds. -- Roger McGuinn
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn. -- William Gurnall
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. -- Bryant H. McGill
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. -- Meghan Daum
My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper. -- Tony La Russa
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore. -- Ann Hood
Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. -- Jules Verne
I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be. -- Jodi Picoult
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Nature is the best Time-keeper. -- Ankala V Subbarao
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Everyone is the keeper of a dream -- Oprah Winfrey
If she drinks beer, she's a keeper. -- Granger Smith
I am the keeper of my husband's history. -- Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that. -- Ron Atkinson
Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper -- Aftab Alam
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper. -- Steven Gerrard
I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it. -- Ron Atkinson
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion -- Leonard Cohen
The future is the keeper of the memories of the past -- Mario
You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper. -- Raymond Chandler
You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself. -- Laura Ramirez
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.] -- George Herbert
The pope is the keeper of the catholic dogma,not the Word. -- Woally Mandzanga
If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are. -- William Randolph Hearst
Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe -- Joe King
A quiz: If I am my brother's keeper, who am I? (Answer: me.) -- Jack Handey
And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation. -- Josiah Tucker
We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us. -- Paula Deen
I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets. -- Gabrielle Zevin
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. -- William O. Douglas
I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order. -- Melissa Marr
If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction. -- Ally Carter
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant -- Saadi
It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'. -- David James
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. -- Hilary Benn
The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least. -- Ron Atkinson
You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper. -- Jennifer Lopez
My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper. -- Mary Johnston
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that. -- Karen Gillan
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo. -- Woody Allen
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. -- Sue Monk Kidd
With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate. -- Esther Hicks
In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies. -- Dani Shapiro
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. -- Eugene V. Debs
Everyone knows if you're going to take weed to school, you put it in your trapper keeper to keep it fresh. -- Chelsea Handler
But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper. -- Reba McEntire
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. -- Eric Hoffer
The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude. -- Mandy Hale
I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR NEIGHBOR IS, AND THE IDEA THAT, I'M MY BROTHER'S KEEPER WORKS FOR ME. -- Jon Bon Jovi
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. -- Joseph Conrad
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. -- William J. Clinton
I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers. -- Edward Abbey
Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo â?? Captain Kangaroo... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House. -- Bob Keeshan
I know about the rules but this should not be a red card for the keeper. Arsenal was punished enough with the penalty. -- Manuel Neuer
My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football. -- Dada Maravilha
We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community. -- Maya Angelou
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. -- Evan Esar
There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball. The problem is the pressure you feel in a penalty shootout. -- Jurgen Klopp
Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.' -- Jeffrey R. Holland
This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away. -- Susane Colasanti
...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. -- Orson Scott Card
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. -- Rollo May
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. -- Anais Nin
We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves. -- John Shelby Spong
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors. -- Christopher Paolini
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role. -- Christopher Meledandri
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper? -- Herbert Hoover
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress. -- Gore Vidal
I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us. -- B. B. King
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society. -- Eugene V. Debs
The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper... -- George McGovern
Wrath clapped his brother on the shoulder. On the whole, though, the SOB was a total keeper. "Forgiven, forgotten." "Feel free to hammer me anytime." "Believe me, I do. -- J.R. Ward
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered. -- Stephen Keshi
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly. -- Lloyd Alexander
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes. -- Fisher Ames
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water. -- Charles Bradlaugh
Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper. -- G. E. M. Skues
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream â?? and by tuning into one anotherâ??s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. -- Oprah Winfrey
If a girl understands your BS, sticks with you through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for her, it's obvious she's a keeper. But it's also obvious you don't deserve her. -- Lil Wayne
Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf. -- Gemma Halliday
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides -- Judy Grahn
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful . -- Thomas A. Edison
That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham. -- Ed Lynskey

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