- Nov 07, 2020
Were Quotes
Looking back at what was.
This page collects quotes that look backward - one traveler recalling how ordinary tea shops became a favorite haunt abroad, another speaker arguing that drug use is a symptom of deeper trouble rather than the root cause. Readers who like reflective phrasing may also enjoy Family.
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- Fonda
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- Nov 07, 2020
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
- Nov 07, 2020
Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
- Navy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
- After
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with the Pacific Gateway, Canadians were similarly hoodwinked by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather and I were very close.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020