Alex Haley If you’re blessed to do something like ‘Roots’… you find yourself immersed. You’re asked to do this, to do that – all for admirable causes. But you’re just swamped. – Alex Haley Admirable Quotes Blessed Quotes Immersed Quotes Roots Quotes Swamped Quotes In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have ‘made it,’ who do things to help people.
IndependenceSamuel Adams But,’ say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, ‘we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.’ On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue. – Samuel Adams
Paul Merton I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence – after that, I didn’t fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I’m fine now. – Paul Merton
E W Howe It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. – E W Howe
Susan Vreeland After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing ‘Girl in Hyacinth Blue.’ The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful. – Susan Vreeland
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