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Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Mary Hunter Austin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 9, 1868 - August 13, 1934

Topics

God World Air One Thing Anywhere

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Work Hard Work Faith American Dream

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Ocean Me Grow Wonder Happen Just

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

Business Mind Me Ideas Writing Book

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

Girl Long Career Outside Apartment

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Ritter Beard

Long Journalism More Agree Sure

I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.

Leadership God Greatness Think

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Men Insecurity Believe Up Show Most

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

Basketball You Out Kentucky Kick

I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.

God Age Me You Uncle Possible

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

Peter Lindbergh

Nobody Kind Strange Names Contracts

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Life Happiness Purpose World Earth

To this day, I can't understand why the closest man to Jimmy Carter, the key staff guy at the White House, didn't even join us at the White House breakfast meetings where we discussed upcoming legislation with the president. This was unprecedented. People used to say that Jordan was the most brilliant guy around, but you couldn't prove it by me.

Thomas P. O'Neill

Day Man People Breakfast Me Key

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