Though the country seemed so new, and no house was observed by us, shut in between the banks that sunny day, we did not have to tr...avel far to find where men inhabited, like wild bees, and had sunk wells in the loose sand and loam of the Merrimack. There dwelt the subject of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Esprit de Lois, where a thin, vaporous smoke curled up through the noon. All that is told of mankind, of the inhabitants of the Upper Nile, and the Sunderbunds, and Timbuctoo, and the Orinoko, was experience here. Every race and class of men was represented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equa...lly restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was when "reporters" became "journalists" and when "objectivity" gave way to "searching for truth," that an aura of distrust an...d fear arose around the New Journalist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was a sophomore in college when everything went down the drain. I never thought it would happen. It was like the end of the worl...d. We had those great plush years. I remember the house. The kid's [sic] say, "Is that your house?" The schools we went to, Palm Springs, inviting your friends down for the weekends, swimming pools, fancy dresses. It was all tied up with my father. Finally I had to face my father being a real person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the g...randmothers in your family do not know about in detail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against ...our daughters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am continually amazed at how old young has become. Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would ne...ver end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »