Teddy Roosevelt Bio Quotes & Sayings

[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not unique: that he was not yearning to travel two thousand miles on bad trains to support the reelection campaign of a county sheriff, or to address the congregation of a new chapel in a landscape with no trees. His refusal, no matter how elaborately apologetic, was received more often in puzzlement than anger. Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, or practically any monarch or minister of consequence in Europe -- not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.

From COLONEL ROOSEVELT, p. 104. — Edmund Morris

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. — William, Saroyan

I hugged my mom. "Is it supposed to hurt this much, mommy?" I asked.
"My sweet Sloane," she said. "True love hurts the worst."

Sloane and Tammi — Micalea Smeltzer

Facts that we know do not always come to mind when we need them. People — Daniel Kahneman

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives. — Jim Rohn

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone De Beauvoir

Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain. — Bill Willingham