Jack Kerouac Quotes

I know who the great poets are.

Jack Kerouac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

Topics

GreatKnowWhoPoets

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

LoveMarriageHonorNegotiate

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Andrew Pyper

FearUnderstandingPlaceKindNeed

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Meghan Daum

WisdomPeopleParentYouPerson

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

FamilyLoveRelationshipAdmireEat

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Michael J. Fox

DisciplineDoingWayWatchingRight

I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!

Alysia Reiner

FamilyLoveDinnerSeedsSometimes

Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.

Stephanie Coontz

LoveMarriageRelationshipPolitical

As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

HomeFreedomTeacherIndependence

The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'

Tristram Stuart

FoodJobSchoolMeKitchenFriends

In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

Mary Beard

MenCollegeColleaguesTeachOffice

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Luke Scott

ManBaseballGolfYouKnifeClub

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

Bob Schaffer

GovernmentHelpWayFirstOutGet

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