"The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America."

-- Lady Gregory

#America Quotes #Play Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.”
“Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.”
“I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.”
“I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.”

Source : "What I Was: A Novel". Book by Meg Rosoff, 2007.
“I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.”
“Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.”

Source : Roger Lowenstein, (2010). “Buffett”, p.372, Gerald Duckworth & Co
“I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!”

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