Pat Conroy Quotes

The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

Pat Conroy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

Topics

GreatDayChildhoodEvery DayNow

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Meg Cabot

GoodWordsWritingChanceEndYou

We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.

Robert Kennedy

FreedomTogetherManBetterLabor

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years.

Amy Klobuchar

PeopleWorthYouLookDownTrain

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

PoliceFeelYouWonderWrongKnow

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Stevie Nicks

LifeLovePeopleSingingFatReady

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

Janis Karpinski

PoliceControlEnvironmentKnowFair

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

Jonathan Eisen

HumanCellsUsEcosystemManyTimes

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Dick York

SummerJacketOverChillingMiddle

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Douglas Hyde

LanguageWishDeadSeeShareBuried

I've always been a songwriter.

Daya

AlwaysBeenSongwriter

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

Chita Rivera

BeautifulBeautiful PlaceYouI Can

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Bobby Darin

ShoesYouOutUpAshesPercent

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