Wilbur Smith Quotes

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

Wilbur Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 9, 1933

Topics

AdventurePeopleMeGrowing UpBoy

He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

Jennifer Grant

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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Jeffrey Kluger

LifeFamilyGoodSonDaughterRules

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Mencius

MenFreeWillDecideOughtFirmly

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Amber Heard

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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Stephen King

LifeImmortalityOwnEachMakes

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

Suki Waterhouse

LifeMy LifeYouLivingNormalJust

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.

Trip Lee

LoveGodPowerMeYoungRapper

Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they?

Tom Hollander

LovelyJustProfessionally

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Ruth Reichl

ChildrenFoodEatingBehaviorBad

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Rudolph Valentino

WomenDangerousWorseGeneralize

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.

Mathieu Amalric

HumorSillyYouSense Of HumorBad

People take toasting way too seriously - especially the clinking glasses part. There are always a few people who are seated too far away from each other to easily clink.

Matt Besser

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