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Alan Paton Quotes

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: January 11, 1903 - April 12, 1988

Topics

Yourself You Ask Right Expedient

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Yourself Blame Learn Someone You

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

Myself School Parents Me Door World

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

Family Love Father Mother Rich Land

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

Home Church Feel Empty Mystical

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

Subhash Chandra

Mistake People Decisions Take Hindi

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

Work Story Rejection You Out Make

Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.

Change Future Government World Goal

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

Romy Madley Croft

Myself Night Think Festivals Look

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

Today People Think Wonder I Wonder

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

Perseverance Me Always Tool Been

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

Love City Place Earth New Up

Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending families who have borne the heaviest burden of the main pollutant that is driving climate change.

Change Live Power Plants Limits

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