Kate Atkinson Quotes

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Kate Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1951

Topics

GoodBeginningChildParentsThink

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Joe Lhota

HomeAloneTimeWalkDaySchool

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

Andrew Sean Greer

GreatGrandmotherStoryteller

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Maya Angelou

FantasyLuckyTransformMillion

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Robert Scheer

FindingJournalismDownPantsPasses

Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

WorldRealityPoliticalPlaceKnow

The internet population is going up and up. I am confident that this will be a huge market.

Robin Li

I AmConfidentInternetWillUpAm

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Michael Parkinson

SuccessMeThinkWantDeserveGet

I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.

Michael Strahan

FatherRelationshipSimpleBikeOut

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

Monica Johnson

GodLookFindPlaceAuthorityOut

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Common SenseDoingSeeingDoneSense

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

Christopher Lloyd

PeopleMeAmericanComedyWayNever

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Clint Eastwood

MenSchoolHairStupidHigh School

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