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Peter Abrahams Quotes

Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.

Peter Abrahams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: March 3, 1919 - January 18, 2017

Topics

Women Black End Lived English Most

Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.

Jeanine Pirro

Step House Down Needs Speaker Paul

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.

Sloane Crosley

Live People World Now Apartment How

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero - maybe ever - because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it's puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way. That's why he's such a beloved character: because so many people can relate to him.

Tom Holland

Character People Doing Talking Go

When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other team literally tried to stop me from going on the pitch. He was like, 'How old is this kid? Where is his ID? Where is he from?'

Romelu Lukaku

Parents Me Team Youth Stop Kid

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

Mika

Want Make Pop Records

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

Michelle Yeoh

People Hard Surprises Punch Kick

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

Joy Mangano

Work Mom House Clean Things Needs

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

Janna Levin

Nature Space Believe You Born Never

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Great Beginning Small Opportunities

Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney's brand of evangelical fervour, called the 'new measures,' emphasised saving souls and reviving worship by incorporating elements of personal testimony and music into church services.

Anthea Butler

Music Today Great Time Brand Church

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

William Hague

Love Business Writing Doing Piano

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Sylvia Plath

Discipline Poetry Space Small You