Wendells Country Quotes & Sayings

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory. — Paul Samuelson

Everything you want to accomplish in life is fairly simple to obtain; it's just not easy. — Paul Morrisey

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. — Tom Petty

At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks. — Sascha Radetsky

Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy. — Suanne Laqueur

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar ... and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm. — Thomas B. Griffith

And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible. — Jonathan Maberry

Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you? — B.M. Bower

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer. — Shreya Ghoshal