"My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal."

-- Clarence Thomas

#Grandmother Quotes #People Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“Soon is not as good as now.”
“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”
“A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.”
“What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.”
“My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.”
“Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.”
“When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show”
“I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?”

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