Pete Hamill Quotes

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

Pete Hamill

Boy

Quotes to Explore

We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

Ian Hacking
- People
- Way
- Need
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

Ingrid Newkirk
- Pretty
- Die
- Fire
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

Rafik Hariri
- Want
- Peace
- Security
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

W. H. Davies
- Children
- Man
- Small
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

Kabir Bedi
- World
- Successful
- Miracle