You commonly make your camp just at sundown.... You have no time to explore or look around you before it is dark. You may penetrat...e half a dozen rods farther into that twilight wilderness, after some dry bark to kindle your fire with, and wonder what mysteries lie hidden still deeper in it, say at the end of a long day's walk.... That is as if you had been to town or civilized parts. But there is no sauntering off to see the country, and ten or fifteen rods seems a great way from your companions, and you come back with the air of a much-traveled man, as from a long journey, with adventures to relate, though you may have heard the crackling of the fire all the while,--and at a hundred rods you might be lost past recovery, and have to camp out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for th...e right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Co...mmunist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrinatio...n, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave... Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
they burned Joan and many, and many,... burned at the stake, peeling their skin off, boiling their good red blood, their hearts like eggs....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their firs...t memorable winter in the New World, they had for neighbors a colony of French no further off than Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) ... where, in spite of many vicissitudes, they had been for fifteen years.... Though these founders of Acadie endured no less than the Pilgrims, and about the same proportion of them ... died the first winter at St. Croix, 1604-1605, sixteen years earlier, no orator, to my knowledge, has ever celebrated their enterprise ... while the trials which their successors and descendants endured at the hands of the English have furnished a theme for both the historian and poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears... streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know only one person who ever crossed the ocean without feeling it, either spiritually or physically.... he went from Oklahoma t...o France and back again ... without ever getting off dry land. He remembers several places I remember too, and several French words, but he says firmly, "We must of went different ways. I don't rightly recollect no water, ever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »