Alice Morse Earle Quotes

The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

Alice Morse Earle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyHomeSadBeautifulHistory

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Matthias Schoenaerts

TimeHumanBeing HumanSameThings

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

John Updike

GoodLightBeginningMindEnding

I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

Steven Bauer

HistoryGreatOpportunitiesThink

I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.

Sid Meier

RespectMeThinkGamesRightLike

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Robert Zubrin

SpacePeopleFateEnoughExploration

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

Ronnie Spector

LoveYearsRadioStillSongsFact

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Mindy Kaling

ManHairCareLossWantHe

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Janine Benyus

WaterTryingJumpClean WaterClean

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

Diana Nyad

ExperienceTwoYearsLastBeen

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Dove Cameron

YouSpecialInsideWhateverTake

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

Clayton M. Christensen

ValueMedicineCareHandsYouGo

I consider myself an ordinary person.

Coco Martin

MyselfPersonOrdinaryConsider

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