James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

James Fenimore Cooper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851

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The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

John Lewis

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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Michael Bloomberg

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The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

John Pearson

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I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Sue Monk Kidd

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We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Sonny Perdue

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As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a writer I greatly admired than as a teacher. As for other writers, I think it's safe to say that my work has been and continues to be influenced to one degree or another by every writer whose work I love and admire.

Sigrid Nunez

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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Robert Duvall

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To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rupert Everett

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Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

Mo Ibrahim

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A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.

Ashish Sharma

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You can change friends but not neighbours.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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