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Jupiter Hammon Quotes

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1711 - 1806

Topics

Time Masters Our Spent Idly

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

Adversity Great Depression America

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Jessica Savitch

Mistakes Someone Result Always

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

Winter Roads Architecture Isolation

I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.

Death Grow Wealth Will Possible

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

Faith Great Politics I Am Person

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Violence Crime Write Course Stories

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Anarchy Left Guy Only Any Bit

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

Life Family Broken City Me My Life

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

War Back Rock Two Being Roll

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

Joseph Wambaugh

Never Things Screen Get Percent

I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don't see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.

Life Love Passion Myself My Life Up

I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything.

Fun Think More Years Anything Than

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