Jean Fritz Quotes

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

Jean Fritz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1915 - May 14, 2017

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HistorySchoolPeopleAmericaKings

If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.

Jimmy Swaggart

GoodMeEnoughYouLookFind

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

Andrew Mason

WillQuestionOverYearsWithout

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

John Muir

FoodMenLieManRisksWolves

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Steven Wright

EnoughPointHeDecided

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Roger Daltrey

TogetherIdeasBandWantedWere

It's important to find your tribe.

RuPaul

FindImportantTribeYour

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

Lucinda Williams

MindWritingVoiceMoreStarted

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

Dixie Lee Ray

KindTrueWithoutUpSkepticism

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Donna Edwards

CongressClassFirstOfficeI Came

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Compay Segundo

SingingStopOnlyGrave

The big polluters are confident in their grip on Congress. They have basically achieved control of the Republican Party, and as a result, they are basically able to block action in Congress that the public needs and the country deserves.

Sheldon Whitehouse

ControlActionConfidentResultBig

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

Lewis Grizzard

ChangeLanguageTalkingUnderstand

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