"My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo."

-- Arabella Weir

#Dad Quotes #America Quotes #Cairo Quotes

“I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.”
“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
“Worry destroys the ability to write.”
“True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.”
“If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.”
“But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.”
“He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness...”
“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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