"Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy."

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Wilbur Smith

#Father Quotes #Hero Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though weâ€™re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, theyâ€™ll be talking about you and me. Weâ€™ll all be lumped togetherâ€¦. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
“While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.”
“I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.”
“At once, itâ€™s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just donâ€™t have the arrogance. Apparently, Iâ€™m too â€œvulnerableâ€ for ferocity. Iâ€™m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.”
“I think it's really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a rubric, a system that you apply to all environments, and in so doing you create a situation in which you can locate local color, local differences within new environments.”
“Ijust had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."”
“Who you are depends on who you meet.”
“Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.”

Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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