"I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist â€¦ Well, a show-off anyway."

--

Source : "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#Independence Quotes #Age Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.”
“An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.”
“To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons". www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”

Source : "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.
“More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.”
“Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.”

You may also like:

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Writer
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Poet
Edith Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
William Borah
Former United States Senator
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
William McKinley
25th U.S. President