Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

LifeGratefulIdentityMeWriting

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Viola Davis

LifeManParentYouGoSitting

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

Jim Kolbe

GayCongressExpertTradeArizona

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

GreatPeacePeopleWorldMovement

'Rugrats' was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

Michael Angarano

Growing UpGrowingKidUpCartoon

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

Tom Odell

BeardThinkGrowAbleEver

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Robin Sloan

LibraryUpMichiganSomePublic

People probably don't give me the credit I deserve for holding the Strikeforce title, but the people who do know, know.

Luke Rockhold

PeopleMeCreditKnowDeserveGive

I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.

Judy Blume

CharacterWritingIssue

I feel very fortunate, always.

Dominic Cooper

FeelAlwaysFortunateI FeelVery

I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

Didier Drogba

TimePeaceWinBattleCountryTop

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Dorothea Dix

GoodPathBlessingSlaveryFollow

I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.

Bonnie McKee

ProblemsEverythingAnswerGoneMade

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