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Howard Nemerov Quotes

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991

Topics

Time Long You Long Time Same Over

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

Life Friend Best Best Friend Better

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Hope Being Close Disease Cure While

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

Travis Bradberry

Women Men Lie People Conversation

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Night Walking White Angels Delight

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Hope I Am Me Important More Human

In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in the Soviet Union was not easy. Not that I remember any of that - I was barely old enough to chew back then - but for my parents, both Uzbekistan-born Jews, life was a struggle.

Milana Vayntrub

Life Culture Struggle Parents Enough

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

Fight Die You Back Down Up

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Life Looking End Laugh You Living

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

Yourself Believe Fighting You Up

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Person Want Next Greedy Stuff Much

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Today Quality People Youth Black

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Anthony Trollope

Night Done Never Presence Salmon

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