A Quote by Kate DiCamillo

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
American - Author
Born: March 25, 1964

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.

Emma Thompson

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Roger Scruton

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.

Charlotte Lamb

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

Harvey Cox

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

Blake Mycoskie

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

Jim Harbaugh

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Shirley Hazzard

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Margaret Mead

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Lionel Tiger

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor

It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

Brad Pitt

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

Jerry Spinelli

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Paula Gunn Allen

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Desmond Tutu

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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