Alistair Horne Quotes

Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.

Alistair Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 9, 1925 - May 25, 2017

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As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Jo Ann Emerson

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Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.

Steve Harvey

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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

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With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

Roger Mahony

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My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

Romy Madley Croft

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I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

Louise Fletcher

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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Jonah Goldberg

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The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

Jon Batiste

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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

Bryan Ferry

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People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Art Alexakis

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'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.

Annie Wersching

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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

Algernon Sidney

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