Alice Morse Earle Quotes

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

Alice Morse Earle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1851 - February 16, 1911

Topics

AmericanFatWayFirstLighting

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

WorkGoodDayNightEndGambling

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeMeLibraryGrowMy LifeHouse

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

Joel Edgerton

FatherThoughtMarried

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

DaughterWifeMeTroubleWatching

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Michael Finkel

NeverTakeNotesInterviewsFormal

Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.

Tony Bellew

GreatMeJust BecauseFighterBeat

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

Ritchie Blackmore

LifeTimeSchoolWindowMy LifeOut

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Robert Toombs

DayPurposeGovernmentDesireFirst

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

Robert Vaughn

LifeGodManI AmMy LifeActor

Even if it's snowing or raining, I'm always wearing sunscreen.

Mary Helen Bowers

RainingAlwaysSunscreenEven

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

Michael Mandelbaum

WorldDivisionDemocraticBetween

I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

Douglas Hodge

LoveNew YorkCityTryingYouDown

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