Honorary Pallbearer Quotes

#1. Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

Waite Hoyt

#2. Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Bruce Jackson

#3. So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Angelina Grimke

#4. And the rats eat my face. So what.

Sarah Kane

#5. Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Mason Cooley

#6. Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#7. From my close observation of writers ... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Isaac Asimov

#8. The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

John Ashbery

#9. But it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.

Paul Pilkington

#10. We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Daniel Goleman

#11. we are always optimists when it comes to time; we

Fredrik Backman