Quotes About Horatio Alger

#1. Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America - which means that at some level you've made peace with its rather ugly past.

Vijay Iyer

#2. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

Karen Abbott

#3. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#4. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau

#6. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

Marion Meade

#7. For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

Norman Lock

#8. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#9. My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Garrison Keillor

#10. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Thomas Browne

#11. Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

Horatio Alger

#12. It's not about finding shelter in the storm but about dancing in the rain. (Zarek - Dark hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. The Buckeye Build will have a lasting impact on Cleveland, and it is an honor to be a part of it.

Rob Portman

#14. Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

Hector Crawford

#15. There are many boys, and men too, who, like Micky Maguire, have never had a fair chance in life. Let us remember that, when we judge them, and not be too hasty to condemn.

Horatio Alger Jr.

#16. Do you want me, Liam ?"
"Angel, I've wanted you forever.

Kirsty Moseley

#17. I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just ... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Frank Ocean

#18. The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Horatio Alger

#19. I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

PJ Harvey

#20. The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

C.S. Lewis

#22. No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Horatio Alger

#23. The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Horatio Alger