Mary Doria Russell Quotes

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Mary Doria Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 19, 1950

Topics

LoveMotherHopeRespectCompassion

Treat everyone on Earth like you're staying in their home. Because you are.

Jen Sincero

HomeTreatYouEarthEveryoneLike

I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

Melissa McCarthy

WeirdFeelYouGuiltyAlwaysModern

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

John Nelson Darby

GodChildrenTogetherWorldBelieve

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Angela Duckworth

PeopleWorldThinkYouSome People

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.

Ann Nocenti

MeVillainYouRiseWayLittle

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

OldGoingWhoVeryWere

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Amy Tan

CultureI AmAmericanValuesKnow

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Steve Stockman

PowerGovernmentConstitutionDoing

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Tom Robbins

ReadyKnowWriteHowNovelAspiring

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

Louis L'Amour

SeaDownDriftThingsSeemLoose

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

Dennis Moore

HopePeopleMeYouSaidWashington

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Brent Weeks

WritingTwistsSurprisingLot

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