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Fish in a Tree QUOTES

Fish in a Tree QUOTES

1 " Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

2 " Rain, rain falling down
Down, down on the gound
All the birds go in the trees
They don't like the rain, you see. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

3 " One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out. All three of us. You wait and see. You're going to be a famous artist and Albert is going to cure cancer or invent talking fish or something. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

4 " I'm only different to the people who see with the wrong eyes. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

5 " There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Strawberry, pistachio, black raspberry. Pink, green, and purple. I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Maybe melting rivers of it. And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a babana split dish rowing with a spoon. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

6 " So instead I stare at the steaming liquid dripping into a coffeepot and start thinking of steaming volcanoes. And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

7 " Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

8 " Well…alone is a way to be. It’s being by yourself with no one else around. And it can be good or bad. And it can be a choice…. But being lonely is never a choice. It’s not about who is with you or not. You can feel lonely when you are alone, but the worst kind of lonely is when you’re in a room full of people, but you’re still alone. Or you feel like you are anyway. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

9 " You say that you'll grow up to be nobody. But logically.. if nobody's perfect... well then, you must be perfect. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

10 " One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out" -Keisha "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

11 " An older brother is older. A big brother looks out for you and smiles when you walk into a room. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

12 " maybe “I’m having trouble” is not the same as “I can’t. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

13 " What letters do you see backward?” “Well, O, I, T, A, M, V, X, U . . . and some others. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

14 " Great minds don't think alike. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

15 " Alice in Wonderland - a book about living in a world where nothing makes sense made perfect sense to me" -Ally "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

16 " I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

17 " But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school—when he didn’t have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they had to. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

18 " I can't think of anything worse than having to describe myself. I'd rather write about something more positive. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

19 " My grandpa used to say to be careful with eggs and words, because neither can ever be fixed. The older I get, the more I realize how smart my grandpa was. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree

20 " I'm afraid to open my mouth sometimes things just come out that get me more in trouble. "

― Lynda Mullaly Hunt , Fish in a Tree