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Peter Abrahams Quotes

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Meaning Find Africa Race Could

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

High Event Lows Pole

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

I Am Me Think Help Long Run

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.

Moment Slavery American Betrayal

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Stanley Hauerwas

Time Focus Reason Through Bitter

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Laugh Friends Attention Never Always

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

Character Story Done Because Very

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Time Culture Politics Creative Done

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

Good Difficult Always Been Make

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Christopher Buckley

Blessing Child Only Child Advantage

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

Time Career Plans Big NBA Deal

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

I Am Seeing Go Need Up Middle

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

Problems Create Politicians Out Take

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