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Mark Helprin Quotes

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Mark Helprin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1947

Topics

Time Silence World Stand American

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

Joan Blades

Work Parents Fair Need Earn Pay

I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.

John Hurt

People Reason Stage Without Weight

What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.

John T. Chambers

Work Great Culture Unique Engineers

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Stand Watie

War Me Sorry Surrender Poor Fields

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

Situation Product Up Jumping Sell

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

Michael Nielsen

Knowledge Science Potential Reward

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

Luke Rhinehart

Freedom Book Write Dice Decide Knew

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

School High School Thought Hood Boy

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.

Judy Blume

Growing Up Growing Up 1950s Sweaters

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

Joschka Fischer

Power Seeing Will Nuclear Power Use

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Jordan Knight

Challenge You Heaven Go Want Try

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!

Constance Marie

Motherhood You Sometimes Everything