“When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.” FirstsKnownBattleTragedySuicideHappy Marriage Author:Paul Engle
“A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.” FirstsChildrenChristHappenedAirEventsHorseOriginalsSmellCattleBarnsChrist Child Book:Prairie Christmas Source: Prairie Christmas
“For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.” FirstsPhilosophyLanguageMy OwnDegreesSummerSightGermanyVacationTranslateDictionaryOxfordSummer VacationGerman Philosophy Book:A Lucky American Childhood Source: A Lucky American Childhood
“The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.” FirstsFatherObjectsGrewGrew UpHorseCoachesFedsManureSaddlesPacingTrotting Author:Paul Engle
