Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 25, 1937

Topics

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You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.

Jim James

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Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

John Abizaid

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I've become very close with Tom Hardy. I love Tom to bits.

Stephen Graham

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Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tom Rath

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At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Luis Walter Alvarez

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They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

Louise Jameson

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My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

Desiigner

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I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Douglas Booth

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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

DeForest Soaries

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I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.

Chauncey Billups

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My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

Clarence Thomas

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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

Bram Stoker

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