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Victor LaValle Quotes

If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1972

Topics

Nature Job Child Learn You True

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Jill Scott

Water Me Pool Carry Float Just

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates

Live Man Honest Politician Really

I've actually traveled quite a bit with various authors. Judith Miller and I toured the highlands in Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs, and that was incredible fun. However, I love going with my husband, who - although he is not a writer per se, he is a historian and can give me a lot of insight on various historical locations.

Tracie Peterson

Love Fun Me Husband Traveled Going

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

Learning Now Studying Hard Years

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Mary Augusta Ward

Son Children Born Two Daughters Our

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Michael Korda

War Me World World War I English

I'm an old-fashioned girl.

Chita Rivera

Girl Old-Fashioned

My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

Chris Riddell

Children Page Something Would Other

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Connie Mack

Man Team Know More First Handle

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Arthur Ransome

Time Done Right Next Differently

With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.

Sean Brady

Culture Past Silence Society Church

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.

Tim Kennedy

Place Go Done Special Over Forces