Edward Hirsch Quotes

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1950

Topics

LosingChildPeopleKnowWriteYour

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

AgeChildrenWritingInnocenceI Can

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Tristan MacManus

MorningFootballDanceCompetition

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

FearPeopleFriendsStrangersMore

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.

Tom Freston

ThinkBetterYouLookCompete

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

Mika

MyselfArtistLookToo MuchPerson

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

Michael Scheuer

TimeEffortUniquenessDoneFocused

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

Mitch McConnell

BuildingAmericaMoreUpForceThan

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

Jay Parini

GunAmericaRightIndividualIdea

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

Donna Brazile

OpportunityPastThinkingCountry

A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!

Donny Osmond

PeopleMeThinkYouArtistLook

I don't watch what I eat, because the concept seems exhausting to me.

Christina Tosi

MeEatWatchSeemsBecauseConcept

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

Chuck Liddell

LoveCollegeDoingSeriousWrestling

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