Alice McDermott Quotes

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

ParentsBrooklynIrishRaisedBoth

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

John Paul DeJoria

MorningJobSchoolBrotherCards

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

John Rocha

LoveGreatArtLightWallsWhite

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

GoodBetterMoreAlwaysSomething

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

ChildrenTogetherCareYouThree

Don't bring your kids to my show, and I won't come to your house and cuss.

Ron White

HouseBringShowComeKidsYour

You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

Mitch Gaylord

TrustMistakesPeopleLearnYouTry

I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Judith Leiber

DogHappyBagLadyEggYou

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin

GoodOppositionWellOurselvesShall

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

Donella Meadows

ChangeTexasYouClimate ChangeMuch

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

Debbie Ford

ChangeTimeLonelinessGriefEnergy

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

Debbie Reynolds

FunMePicturesDancingWonderful

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

Chrystia Freeland

PeopleHurtPovertyYouTalkMiddle

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