Top 48 Hersey Quotes

#1. Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

Jean Hersey

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#2. I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

John Hersey

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#3. Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

John Hersey

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#4. I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

Jean Hersey

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#5. Their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

John Hersey

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#6. The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

John Hersey

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#7. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

John Hersey

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#8. June is the gateway to summer ...

Jean Hersey

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#9. The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

John Hersey

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#10. The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

John Hersey

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#11. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

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#12. Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.

John Hersey

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#13. I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

Howard Zinn

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#14. In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

Jean Hersey

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#15. My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.

John Hersey

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#16. People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'

Paul Hersey

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#17. Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

John Hersey

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#18. When you plant early, you bring spring early.

Jean Hersey

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#19. Green pine trees, cranes and
turtles ...
You must tell a story of your
hard times
And laugh twice.

John Hersey

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#20. August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

Jean Hersey

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#21. All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

John Hersey

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#22. January is the month for dreaming.

Jean Hersey

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#23. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

John Hersey

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#24. If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts!

Sandra Hersey

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#25. My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

John Hersey

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#26. Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God

William Hersey Davis

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#27. To find love is rare but can be true if found unconditionally without any regreat look to the present and their you will find love

Jessi Hersey

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#28. The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

John Hersey

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#29. Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

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#30. It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

John Hersey

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#31. What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

John Hersey

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#32. Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

Jean Hersey

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#33. And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

John Hersey

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#34. Events are less important than our responses to them.

John Hersey

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#35. A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

John Hersey

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#36. High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

Paul Hersey

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#37. Lilacs are May in essence.

Jean Hersey

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#38. The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

John Hersey

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#39. To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

John Hersey

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#40. I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Jane Hersey

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#41. Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Jane Hersey

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#42. The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow.

John Hersey

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#43. October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

Jean Hersey

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#44. The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

John Hersey

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#45. The reality is that changes are coming ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

John Hersey

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#46. In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

Jean Hersey

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#47. November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

Jean Hersey

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#48. It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

John Hersey

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