Ambilineal Descent Quotes & Sayings

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. — Rose Tremain

Seek always to do some good, somewhere ... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer

Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality. — Joe Queenan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport. — William Finnegan

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle. — Ariel Rechtshaid

The German citizen is a soldier, and the policeman is his officer. The policeman directs him where in the street to walk, and how fast to walk. At the end of each bridge stands a policeman to tell the German how to cross it. Were there no policeman there, he would probably sit down and wait till the river had passed by. At the railway station the policeman locks him up in the waiting-room, where he can do no harm to himself. When the proper time arrives, he fetches him out and hands him over to the guard of the train, who is only a policeman in another uniform. The guard tells him where to sit in the train, and when to get out, and sees that he does get out. In Germany you take no responsibility upon yourself whatever. Everything is done for you, and done well. — Jerome K. Jerome