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Jan Karon Quotes

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Words Mysterious Names Hearing Up

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

Wish You Look Others Economy Same

That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

Andrew Benintendi

Beautiful Baseball You Size About

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I Am Better May Different Least Am

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

Time Down Write I Write Mornings

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

Beauty Hope World Camera Mystery

I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.

Knowledge People City Meetings New

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

Three Two Hang Answer Four Seconds

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

Opinion Strong Die I Can Born Want

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Feel Admire Contact Pieces Only

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

Dress People Me Feel Look Want

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Best Losing People You Sometimes

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

Christopher McCulloch

Good Patriotism People World Rest

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