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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 49c8fb3 | It was a question she did not want to be asked. When she asked it of herself, she didn't like her own answer. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 9b7057b | One by one the Rosens turned and hugged Annemarie silently. Ellen came to her last; the two girls held each other. "I'll come back someday," Ellen whispered fiercely. "I promise." "I know you will," Annemarie whispered back, holding her friend tightly. Then they were gone," | Lois Lowry | ||
| a8ef1d6 | Mama was laughing quietly. "I remember, too," she said. "Sometimes she wet the bed in the middle of the night!" "I did not!" Kirsti said haughtily from the bedroom doorway. "I never, ever did that!" | Lois Lowry | ||
| 2c3831d | Let's experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can't we do the same thing? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6af642a | I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f306c5c | Jonas nodded. "I liked the feeling of love," he confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." "What do you mean?" Jonas hesitated. He wasn't certain, r.. | Lois Lowry | ||
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| b11c1f5 | Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 17eb662 | It was a long time ago. "Though it seems, sometimes, that most things that matter happened a long time ago, that is not really true. What is true is this: bu the time you realize how much something mattered, time has passed; by the time it stops hurting enough that you can tell about it, first to yourself, and finally to someone else, more time has passed; then, when you sit down to begin the telling, you have to begin this way: "It was a l.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| cec7b50 | Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c4fa474 | He looked as if it hadn't occurred to him that it might not matter. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c780e58 | They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c836ad0 | She turned her eyes away quickly so that she would not learn it, would not be guilty of something clearly forbidden to her. But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 16a8e9b | Tyree explained, "This man attacked a guard barely" | David Baldacci | ||
| 105b178 | I was funny--ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. | Claire Messud | ||
| fe86485 | The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement "Mound City" in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but those mounds have since been cleared away to make room for the modern city." | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 611d902 | Capital accepts the clash in the quantitative field, because that is where it knows all the answers. | Alfredo M. Bonanno | ||
| c040c45 | The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens. Their actions cannot be explained according to a specific timetable like the coming and going of so many trains. Although scholars may designate the beginning and ending of an era with exact precision, great historical events, particularly those that erupt suddenly and violently, build up slowly, and, onc.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| dcea3da | The word blizzard probably derives from an Indian word, although its origin is now lost. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written record of blizzard comes from the frontiersman Colonel Davy Crockett in 1834. Since Crockett used it without explanation, as though the reader would already know the word, we may assume that blizzard had already attained common usage by that time. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| b609d15 | bear Indian names such as Yukon, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in the north, and Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona in the south. Often these names reflect the tribal names of the people who lived in an area. Such names might be a tribe's own name for itself, or it might be the name given them by a neighboring group. We have states named for the Dakota, the Kansa, the Massachuset, the Illini, and the Utes. Some are names that de.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| f28e12c | Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning "large prairie," but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of the present state of Wyoming, its name achieved popular acclaim after an 1809 poem, "Gertrude of Wyoming," by Thomas Campbell. The poem recalled the Iroquois defeat of a group of Tory settlers and the ensuing death of 350 of them during the chaos of the American Revolution. By the time Congr.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| d0c55fe | Despite all the Indian ruins and the abiding native communities, plaques around Lake Itasca proclaim that Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River in July 1832. For the Indian people who have lived here so many thousands of years, Lake Itasca was obviously not "lost" or "undiscovered" before 1832. They knew it well, albeit under another name. Schoolcraft "discovered" the source of the Mississippi only because an.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| be78f51 | The English explorer Martin Frobisher developed a novel technique for using the services of the Inuit as pilots for his ship during his first Arctic exploration, in 1576. When he sailed around Baffin Island, searching for a northwest passage to the Pacific, Frobisher watched for Inuit men out in their kayaks. When he saw one, he leaned over the bow of his ship and rang a bell, which he held out as though offering a gift to the passing nativ.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 783dd06 | The Mongols who inherited Genghis Khan's empire exercised a determined drive to move products and commodities around and to combine them in ways that produced entirely novel products and unprecedented invention. When their highly skilled engineers from China, Persia, and Europe combined Chinese gunpowder with Muslim flamethrowers and applied European bell-casting technology, they produced the cannon, an entirely new order of technological i.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 19e3911 | Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete, total, and undeniable--or it was nothing. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 39831be | When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined in the North Carolina mountains, in sheets up to three feet wide and three feet long. De Soto found little precious metal, but an abundance of pearls, especially in the mortuary temples. In one town alone his expedition found 25,000 pounds of pearls. The mortuary temples of the people of Cutifachiqui astounded .. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| c307829 | Bukhara. Before the year ended, the Mongols had | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 9c9e283 | The natives of North America were some of the best hunters ever known anywhere in the world; their skill and accuracy frequently astounded the early European explorers. When the Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher made his voyage to Baffin Island, the skill of the Inuit so impressed him that he kidnapped a hunter to take back to England as a prize. The hunter's skill with a harpoon thrilled Queen Elizabeth I so much that she invited him to har.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 108824e | Christians fought everyone, but mostly themselves, as bishops attacked bishops, popes excommunicated kings, kings created antipopes. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| c8b19c7 | While continuing to worship the spirit of their grandfather Genghis Khan and making him into a virtual god, his heirs destroyed everything he created. Yet the more they destroyed, the more ritually important they made him. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 30f8e00 | Religious clerics, political ideologues, and government bureaucrats do not have the right to change history. The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there--somewhere. If we do not continue the work, the truth remains hidden. If we stop the search, then the censor has defeated us. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 6304e6d | propitious | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e695097 | The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e7298ac | By the time the settlers and pioneers of America reached the West Coast, they had gone through many dramatic landscapes, but nothing quite prepared them for the size of the California redwoods. The giant trees led to many disputes, including the very name that should be applied to them. In 1853, British botanists proposed to name the trees Wellingtonia gigantea and called them "Wellingtonias" in honor of the Duke of Wellington, who defeated.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 72833b5 | This appeared clearly in one of the earliest burial mounds found on the Hopewell farm. There, archaeologists found a young man and a young woman buried side by side. As Stuart J. Fiedel describes the burial in Prehistory of the Americas, "She was bedecked with, and surrounded by, thousands of pearl beads and buttons made of copper-covered wood and stone; she also wore copper bracelets. Both individuals wore copper earspools, copper breastpl.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 16ad858 | In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| a2a85d7 | Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America's North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his expedition explored the coast of Canada, and like Cortez, he also wanted to venture inland in search of treasures and new cities. To prepare for the excursion into the interior, he kidnapped Taignoagny and Agaya, two coastal natives whom he took back to France with him to teach them to speak Fren.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 3c853b6 | Suu Mongol | Jack Weatherford | ||
| e4e2e00 | trouble. As an extension of a married woman's ownership of the cart, the wife handled all issues related to money, barter, or commerce. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 06010ec | Service always outranked wealth; loyalty always outranked payments. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 42aef15 | Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of the Mongols. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| c456dd9 | The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. Unlike the Jurched soldiers, who were dependent on a heavy carbohydrate.. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| a2735cc | officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improvised according to the meaning of the message. For a soldier, hearing the message was like learning a new verse to a song that he already knew. The | Jack Weatherford | ||
| 0fbd333 | The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign--total victory. Toward this end, it did not matter what tactics were used against the enemy or how the battles were fought or avoided being fought. Winning by clever deception or cruel trickery was still winning and carried no stain on the bravery of the warriors, since there would be plenty of other occasions for showing prowes.. | Jack Weatherford |