Howard Fast Quotes

Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

Howard Fast

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003

Topics

HistoryMemoryRememberYesterday

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston

WritingBeenMakingStoriesBefore

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Maya Angelou

WorkSuccessGoodMorningFreedom

When you're not winning, you're losing.

John McCain

LosingWinningYou

I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

Matt Cain

ConfidentI CanAnythingCountThrow

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

TeamSomeoneYouSoccerSomething

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.

John Shelby Spong

PeopleControlChurchGayRunOver

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Alva Myrdal

FriendPeaceWarImpossibleBelieve

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

Trygve Lie

PastRiverBagTakeThrowEast

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

LiveSocietyDeadTroublemakers

My dad is a good dad.

Mindy McCready

GoodDad

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Lou Holtz

LifeGodBestFocusSchoolMy Life

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Denzel Washington

WorkWork HardEntertainmentNeed

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