For All Mankind The Skinny Au0150253a Quotes & Sayings

In 1930 the price of cotton dropped. And so, in the spring of 1931, Papa set out looking for work, going as far north as Memphis and as far south as the Delta country. He had gone west too, into Louisiana. It was there he found work laying track for the railroad. He worked the remainder of the year away from us, not returning until the deep winter when the ground was cold and barren. The following spring after the planting was finished, he did the same. Now it was 1933, and Papa was again in Louisiana laying track. I — Mildred D. Taylor

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes. — D.H. Lawrence

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching. — Michael Longley

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college, — Michele Bachmann

Throw the lumber over, man! — Jerome K. Jerome

Everything is silent again: but it isn't the same silence. It's raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked children in the street, the rain is going to spoil their cardboard masks. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us. — Ramona Koval

You get to live your life again through the eyes of your children. I conquered a fear the other day by going on a roller coaster, I haven't been on one in 15 years - I felt like I was six years old. — Peter Andre

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance. — Norman Vincent Peale

Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to? — Joannah Miley

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. — Oscar Wilde

You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity. — Yoko Ono