Lewis Grizzard Quotes

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

Lewis Grizzard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994

Topics

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Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

Megyn Kelly

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My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

Jeff Lindsay

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Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

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On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Steve Tisch

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It was tough mentally at Chelsea, obviously not getting the game time. I had to be really patient and have the mentality to still train right and do all the right things.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

Mike Jackson

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My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Monte Irvin

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It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.

Mitt Romney

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When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.

Dele Alli

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If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

Colson Whitehead

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The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

Brian Dennehy

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If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Annalee Newitz

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