Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 11, 1956

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The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

John C. Maxwell

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After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

John James Audubon

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The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store.

Ann Patchett

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I'm a big Letterman fan.

Andy Samberg

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Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

Michael Dirda

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The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

Mindy Kaling

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We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

Jon Scieszka

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My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin

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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

William Hague

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For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Philip Yancey

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Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Phil Bredesen

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I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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