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Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1831 - September 29, 1910

Topics

Heart Great Struggle Man Blue Think

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

Jimmy Chin

Age Myself Mountains Risks Me Push

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

Michael Dirda

Personal Pleasure See I See Source

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

Merritt Wever

Good School New York City Drama New

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

Anand Gopal

Family Morning Phone Phone Call Him

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Steven Rodney McQueen

Art Myself Trying See Guy Film

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

Sholom Aleichem

Father Blessing Prayer World Evening

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Jason Mitchell

Me Inside Layers Different Lot

No one in New York hangs out in their apartments.

Chris Gethard

New York New Out Apartments York

There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

Columbus Short

Patience Time Exercise You

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

Bridgette Wilson

Parents Mom Be Different You Why

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Anthony Hamilton

Life Love Time Quality Day School

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

Peter Orszag

Time Saying Think Insurance Want