Jesse Sullivan > Quotes

“Flavius Josephus. His documents state that some Jewish pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem at the Jewish Temple for Passover. A soldier in the Roman Army who didn’t really like that, decided that he would moon them to show his disrespect for their faith and culture. Not only that, but he also, according to the sources, “spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture.” So you can imagine what he was telling them. The Jews tried to remain calm and not to react. That’s the best reaction on such occasions. But kids being kids, they couldn’t overlook this. A few Jewish boys started throwing rocks at the mooning soldiers. Unfortunately, the soldiers’ reaction was even worse. They called for reinforcements. This sent the pilgrims into a panic. They thought they would be attacked and killed, so a whole stampede of people running for their lives happened. This first mooning actually resulted in a horrible tragedy. In the stampede, anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people died. That’s pretty hard to imagine. Especially in that it all started with something that we usually find pretty funny today. I guess we should be careful about when and where we show off our butts.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“painter.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Go Downhill and Follow Water”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“died.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Adventure racing is an extreme sport. It can be more about survival than racing. It involves technical rock climbing, kayaking, hiking, and cycling. But all of that is done in the harshest conditions possible. You have to be willing to suffer. These races are brutal. Sometimes racers die!”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Sports Edition: Fascinating Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“roof”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Animals Edition: Fascinating Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“My stomach’s squashed under my chin… my haunches are grinding into my guts… Every gesture I make is blind and aimless… Because I’m stuck like this, my thoughts are crazy… My painting is dead… I am not a painter.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Most people never pick up the phone and
ask and that’s what separates the people who do things, and the people who just dream about them. You gotta act. You gotta be willing to fail. You gotta be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.” - Steve Jobs”
― Jesse Sullivan, You Can Do Anything! Success Stories for Kids: Inspiring True Tales of Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Big Dreams from History, Pop Culture, Sports, and ...

“Silly Putty?”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids STEM Edition: Fascinating Tales from Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Keys to Survival:”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“engine ran”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“passage”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward agreed to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“We had a knocker-up, and our knocker-up had a knocker-up, And our knocker-up’s knocker up didn’t knock our knocker up, So our knocker-up didn’t knock us up, ‘Cos he’s not up.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Canada.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“He couldn’t pull up the anchor but let out the anchor chain as deep as it would go and started the motor of the boat. The water that Howard and Sonny were in was perfectly still. When the wave got to them, it was a 100-foot wall of fast-moving water that would only get bigger. Howard pointed the boat at the wave. He thought it was certain death. But he threw a life preserver at Sonny and told him to start praying.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“That’s when he started talking to God for the first time since he had been a young boy. He just wanted to see his family again. He was hungry, tired, and scared. He had been in the Amazon, alone for 8 days. But now he was determined to make it. He felt that he had God on his side.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Lightning actually strikes the Earth about 100 times every second. Yes, you read that right. Every. Single. Second. That makes it about a 1 in 700,000 chance a person has of being struck by lightning. And with lightning bolts reaching a temperature of 50,000 degrees…I gotta tell you, I don’t like those odds.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Juliana had learned at Gatorland that if you stick your fingers up an alligator’s nose when it’s biting you, it can’t breathe.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“He found a can of coke. With nothing else to drink, this can would save him. On the ocean floor, at least the boat was no longer getting knocked around by the storm. All of that was still going on 100 feet above him. It was much quieter on the bottom of the ocean, and much darker. Everything was pitch black. Wearing just his underwear, Harrison was COLD. With the storm still raging, there was little hope for a rescue, but for some reason, Harrison decided that he wouldn’t give up. He would do his best to keep going. He had nothing to eat. He only had a small pocket of air to breathe. Eventually, that air would run out. As well as being both lucky and stubborn, Harrison was also quite clever. He swam through the darkness into the captain’s quarters to try and grab things that might float which would help him tread water. This was not easy to”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Beck Weathers was a Texan who worked studying diseases as a pathologist. He became fascinated with the act of mountaineering, or climbing tall mountains. He got really into it. Eventually, he found himself attempting to climb to the top of the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. Unfortunately for Beck, he had eye surgery before his trip. As he kept getting higher and higher up the mountain, his vision kept getting worse. Although a blind person has made it to the top of Everest before, it’s really helpful to be able to see when you’re climbing mountains. Especially if everyone on your team isn’t expecting you to become blind up there. One wrong step can mean death on Everest. Rob Hall was a professional mountaineer. He was getting paid to take eight clients up the mountain and Beck was one of them. When you climb Everest, you do some of your climbing at night. As night fell, Beck’s vision got even worse. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to make it to the top. Rob told him that the safest thing to do was to wait where he was and the rest of the group would help him down after they had been to the top. They would meet back up with Beck on their way down. Beck was pretty grumpy about this but realized that he had no choice. His dream of getting to the top of the world’s tallest mountain would have to wait.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Kids Riding Tornados The Wizard of Oz is a famous movie that was made in 1939. Dorothy is the girl who is the main character and in the story, she is picked up by a tornado and carried off to the fictional land of Oz. A few years later, in 1955, a 9-year-old really did go for a ride in a tornado! But first she rode a horse. There’s not a whole lot around Bowdle, South Dakota. It’s a very rural part of the state. Sharon Weron was 9 years old and riding a horse home from a neighbor’s house. Her mom was following in her car and saw everything. Just as Sharon and her horse reached their house, the tornado was on them. They had very little warning. Sharon’s mom saw the tornado pick up her daughter (and horse), spin them around wildly, and carry them away. Sharon was wearing a blue shirt so her mom was looking for that in the tornado and could see her spinning. The tornado carried them around 1,000 feet, over several fences, and dumped Sharon in a ditch. She was wearing a leather jacket and pulled that up around her head during her flight. There was hail and all kinds of debris flying around inside the tornado with her. Sharon’s hands were badly bruised from being hit by the hail and who knows what else. She remembered hitting the ground and grabbing the grass so that she wouldn’t get sucked up again. As she looked around, she found her horse. He was just standing there not far from her. Both were a little beaten up but okay. That’s crazy, right? Their story got picked up by newspapers and spread all over the world. Reporters had no reason to doubt the story. As unbelievable as it seems, it still holds up as credible. Sharon’s ride was also witnessed by neighbors. The Guinness book of world records listed Sharon’s ride as the furthest anyone had ever ridden in a tornado until 2006. It’s remarkable that both Sharon and her horse lived through such a terrifying experience. That has to be the craziest horse story in the history of the world!”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Survival Edition: Epic Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaunga—horonukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“had her captured. I’m sure the poor girl thought she’d never see her family”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Animals Edition: Fascinating Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers