Tony Bradman Quotes

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.

Tony Bradman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 22, 1954

Topics

MotherWarParentsListeningWorld

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

Jennifer Grant

FriendFatherMeThinkingNameWeek

No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.

John Delaney

AloneServiceTravelSleepCare

I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.

Maura Tierney

TimeSchoolMeAngelHigh School

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

Ruth Bradley

LookingEyeYouDownNeverSee

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Rosemary Mahoney

FearKnowledgeIgnoranceBlindSame

I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.

Mat Kearney

MusicDayJobEndLovedEvery Day

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

LoveSoulGrowHatredLikeOur

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Mollie King

LifeLoveFearLosingPeopleYou

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Mona Sutphen

GoodServicePeoplePublic Service

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

Julia Glass

LifeHabitYellowLostTryOffice

I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ServiceTearsLovedChurchMission

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

LifeInspirationalHeroSomeoneHer

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