Best Biography Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al fin y al cabo, eres mi madre. Pero es imposible que sienta amor. No puedo amarte, madre”

Mother Daughter Holocaust Biography Nazis Iiww

Book:Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

Source: Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

“She looked Spencer over, tip to toe, as though she were considering buying him. Then she smiled her friendliest smile and said, "You're rather short, aren't you?" "Don't worry honey," said Mankiewicz, trying desperately to extinguish Spencer's glare. "He'll cut you down to size.”

Romance Actors Friendship Biography Old Hollywood Katherine Hepburn Spencer Tracy

Book:Tracy and Hepburn

Source: Tracy and Hepburn

“In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.”

Biography Americans Travelogues

Book:Truth, Love & A Little Malice

Source: Truth, Love & A Little Malice

“Parents are the bones we cut our teeth on, but they never talk about the parents’ own teeth. They never talk about the bite that you learn to see coming.”

Memoir Nonfiction Autobiography Biography Audiobook Biography Memoir

Book:From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor

Source: From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor

“I’m the same ole guy, just getting older, more able to appreciate the humility of being able to be here at all, anywhere at all; I can still wake up in bed and wander through my memories before it’s too late.”

Memoir Nonfiction Autobiography Biography Audiobook Biography Memoir

Book:From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor

Source: From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor

“When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise.”

Biography New Zealand Art History Women S Biography Yvonne Rust New Zealand Artists Arts Biography New Zealand Painter New Zealand Potter

Book:Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit

Source: Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit

“It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.”

Biography Arts Art Education Painters New Zealand Art History Women S Biography Yvonne Rust New Zealand Pottery

Author:Theresa Sjoquist

“She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.”

Biography New Zealand Art Education New Zealand Painters Nz Arts History New Zealand Women Artists Nz Potters Pioneering Potters

Author:Theresa Sjoquist

“Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.”

Atheism Atheist Deceit Biography Brainwashing Stultifying Alexander Berkman Berkman

Book:The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

Source: The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

“In their hearts, they know that we are all created equal in the eyes of God and the universe. Whoever thinks otherwise will never be happy.”

Hope Inspiring Dreams Determination Memoir Biography Grit Life Journey Dare To Dream True Life Events

Book:America's Daughter

Source: America's Daughter

“I wanted to share with Black Americans the beautiful and empowering aspects of Africa.”

Life Dreams Self Discovery Memoir Biography Traumatic Childhood

Book:America's Daughter

Source: America's Daughter

“Was Ali a poor, illiterate, village boy when he met Wallace, as has generally been believed? Or, did he have an important and interesting backstory?”

Life Dreams Journey Events Travel Memoir True Biography Life Journey

Book:"Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one. I had to break it to allow myself to live the passion that drove and controlled me, that distinguished one decision from another and determined where I drew my lines. I broke the rule to remain human.”

War Peace Memoir Biography Peacekeeping Remain Human

Book:Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction

Source: Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction

“Remember this, Anya,” Dostoyevsky told his wife on his deathbed, “I always loved you passionately and was never unfaithful to you even in my thoughts.”

Love Marriage Historical Feminist Biography Dostoyevsky Russian History Russian Lit Women History

Book:The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

Source: The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

“His wife Anna was the living embodiment of the principles of Russian courage, moral integrity, and active love that had become central to Dostoyevsky’s worldview.”

Love Marriage Historical Biography Dostoyevsky Russian History Russian Lit Women History

Book:The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

Source: The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky