Alewives Quotes

#1. I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand ... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

Jennifer Egan

#2. If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

Tony Dungy

#4. Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#5. It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call.

Lady Gaga

#6. The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day.

James Baldwin

#7. A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
but can't remember why.
A breath she caught and kept -
that left her in a sigh.
It hurts her so to love you,
but she won't say goodbye.

Lang Leav

#8. Those mountains to the right," Waxillium said, pointing. "Those are some taller peaks than the ones we've been passing."
"Yah!" Allik said. "Good eye, O Observan - "
"Stop with the titles."
"Yes, um, O Confusing ... er ... " Allik took a deep breath.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Vladimir Horowitz

#10. All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.

Ramsey Isler