Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Manfred von Richthofen Quote: 'As a little boy of eleven ...'

Related Quotes

'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
Tags: Travel Very Years
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Tags: Nature Me Really
lighthouse beach sea coast ocean
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.


Joseph Addison
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
Tags: Lot Were Might
All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.
Michael Specter
Tags: Food Been Way
Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Tags: He Most Every
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
Rob Lowe
Tags: Had Little Made
Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
Mavis Staples
Tags: Cool Like Just
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
Nneka
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
Ziggy Marley
Tags: Like Had Them
If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.
Jane Byrne
bell church sky religion
I was rather a fat little boy.


Cyril Cusack
Tags: Little Rather Boy
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Janet Reno
Tags: Time Best Our
Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.
Rickie Fowler
Tags: Best Been Most
When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind of Heavenly Father being far away. As I have matured, my experience with prayer has changed. The picture in my mind has become one of a Heavenly Father who is close by, who is bathed in a bright light, and who knows me perfectly.
Henry B. Eyring
Tags: Experience Me Who
When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
Isabel Gillies
Tags: Time Work Home
dolomites mountains italy
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.


Adam Ant
Tags: Man Little Before
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.


Antonio Sabato, Jr.
Tags: God Always Little
My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
John Edgar Wideman
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin
Tags: About Our Go