- Others
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Pete Hamill Quotes
Most Famous Pete Hamill Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best pete-hamill quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Pete Hamill Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feeling
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
- Bird
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
- Born
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
- Kids
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
- Kid
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
- Name
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
- Evil
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
- Chair
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
- Confession
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
- First Place
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
- Habit
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.
- Father
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
- Hero
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
- Genuine
- |
- Nov 07, 2020