Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.Jamaica Kincaid
Quotes to Explore
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul -
Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
Warren Spector -
I have a very small public.
V. S. Naipaul -
A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
Kacey Musgraves
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua -
Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs -
I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
Nazanin Boniadi -
As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt -
I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-Pain -
I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
Natasha Richardson
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"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
Amish Tripathi -
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
Allison Pearson -
For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.
John McCain -
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
Andy Rooney -
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
Jamaica Kincaid