Wendell Berry Quotes

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1934

Topics

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The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

Jim Bishop

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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

John Amos

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I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.

Robert Gottlieb

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Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.

Masayoshi Son

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Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Michael Moore

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I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

Mitch McConnell

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I think law enforcement should respect their undercover agents and listen to what they have to say.

David Thibodeau

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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Chris Abani

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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

Wiz Khalifa

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I had a really bad running posture: like, I ran, literally, dropping on my face.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

Richard Foreman

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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

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