John Eisenhower Quotes

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

John Eisenhower

Quotes to Explore

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

Irv Kupcinet
- Time
- Job
- Team
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Irving Layton
- Genius
- Poems
- Shakespeare
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

Orhan Pamuk
- People
- Up
- Art
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Octavio Paz
- World
- Alone
- Wall
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Children
- Remember
- Flower
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

Natasha Bedingfield
- Like
- Thing
- Favorite