Roberta Edwards > Quotes

“objects, including fans and vases and folding chairs and clothes.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was King Tut?

“Leonardo”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“Medici”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“kill”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“Blue came from grinding a stone called lapis lazuli into dust. Red came from crushing tiny beetles. Yellow came from the juice of one kind of berry.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“Jubilee”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Jane Goodall?

“He was a joiner. He became a member of quite a few men’s groups. One held its meetings at the Green Dragon Tavern. Another met above a printing shop. The group was called the Long Room Club. Many men who became leaders of the American Revolution belonged to this club. A beer maker named Sam Adams was a member. So was John Hancock, who was one of the richest men in Boston. Most of the men had gone to Harvard, but they welcomed Paul. They admired his good sense and his energy. At meetings of the Long Room Club, there was a lot of angry talk about taxes. Colonists had no say in what taxes they had to pay. The government in England decided their taxes. Was that fair? Not in the minds of the Long Room Club members. It had to stop! TAVERNS BOSTON HAD LOTS OF TAVERNS.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Paul Revere?

“But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Barack Obama?

“But”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Barack Obama?

“was satisfying to see change happen. However, the more time he spent in Chicago, the more Barack believed the best way to change the lives of the poor was through the law.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Barack Obama?

“Vinci?”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

“Barack’s first name means “blessed” in Swahili, an African language.”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Barack Obama?

“(He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was George Washington?

“was only forty-six years old. Losing”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Is Barack Obama?

“Country Life George”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was George Washington?

“At”
― Roberta Edwards, Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?