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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4f9af5e | It was too late to tell Dally. Would he have listened? I doubted it. Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world.. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 1cf227c | We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3b9a687 | If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go. | motorcycle-boy | S.E. Hinton | |
| 2de8cf7 | Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . ." The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died." | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3d02c8b | Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 9e52827 | He can get drunk in a drag race or dancing without ever getting near alcohol. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop--he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 5977b2c | But that day...well, Soda can't sit still long enough to enjoy a movie, much less a sermon. It wasn't long before he and Steve and Two-Bit were throwing paper wads at each other and clowning around, and finally Steve dropped a hymn book with a bang--accidentally, of course. Everyone in the place turned to look around at us, and Johnny and I nearly crawled under the pews. And then Two-Bit waved at them. I hadn't been to church since. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 6a74555 | Darry thinks his life is enough without inspecting other people's | S.E. Hinton | ||
| e01519a | asked, | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 7ca169e | Stay Gold Ponyboy | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 93906ef | That was the first time I realized the extent of Johnny's hero-worship for Dally Winston. Of all of us, Dally was the one I liked least. He didn't have Soda's understanding or dash, or Two-Bit's humor, or even Darry's superman qualities. But I realized that these three appealed to me because they were like the heroes in the novels I read. Dally was real. I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. Dally was so real he scared me. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 1afd750 | Some of us never cry at al. Like Dally and Two-Bit and Tim Shepard--they forgot how at an early age. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 0c24ab3 | I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be. I want you to tell Dally to look at one. He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think he's ever really seen a sunset.... | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 1a643b2 | I didn't drink coffee but kept an old Mr. Coffee around because the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, had endorsed them. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 66f6e95 | If there was a divine plan, some otherworldly force at work here, it couldn't be such a cruel one as to allow me a glimpse of heaven then take it away, could it? | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 37dcc80 | Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The | Roy Mottahedeh | ||
| 3438287 | introduced school songs, patriotic holidays, and nationalistic themes in textbooks, all of which made an ancient love of Iran into a modern nationalism. | Roy Mottahedeh | ||
| 104c24a | Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4fddebe | Is that cancer curable or just treatable. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 7ff7379 | Martin Luther | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 41fec08 | present visitors with a tiny beaded pin of the American and Irish flags. It was a big turnout the day I was there, eighteen | Tom Brokaw | ||
| fc08db0 | Father Joe Collins, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 1956d3b | American Cancer Society estimates that in 2015 1,658,370 new cancer cases will be diagnosed and that in the same year about 1,600 people will die from cancer-related conditions daily. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c9bde06 | how to prepare a young generation to run a large, modern, and complex industrial society. Nearly | Tom Brokaw | ||
| adefa06 | These ladies are not stupid, or ignorant. Mrs. Thompson can read both Latin and Spanish, and Ms. Voigtlander is a certified speech therapist who once explained to me that the strange gulping sound that makes NBC's Tom Brokaw so distracting to listen to is an actual speech impediment called a glottal L. It was one of the ladies out in the kitchen supporting Mrs. R--- who pointed out that 11 September is the anniversary of the Camp David Acco.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 8265a5a | Back then, there weren't channels dedicated to subcategories of the population. There was no Disney channel, no Food Network, no ESPN, no Bravo. There was Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, and, my personal crush, Tom Brokaw on the news, and we got cartoons for three hours on Saturday mornings until CBS switched to golf at 11:00 after the Smurfs. Oh sure, MTV hit the scene in 1981, but we couldn't watch it because of the devil. Apparently we co.. | Jen Hatmaker | ||
| c8453f9 | appropriately | Tom Brokaw | ||
| fdba005 | His superiors in the Merchant Marine were astonished. Here he was, ready to go back to the security of the Merchant Marine Academy for another eighteen months of accelerated training, and he wanted to quit to join one of the most dangerous outfits in the service. His officer offered him a thirty-day furlough to think it over. Broderick said, "No, my mind's made up." | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 92defeb | Tom Broderick spent seventeen weeks in basic training for the infantry in Mineral Wells, Texas, before heading to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become a member of the 82nd Airborne. When he finished his training, a captain offered him an instructor's job and the rank of sergeant. Again Broderick refused the safer alternative, saying he wanted to stay with his outfit and go overseas. Broderick | Tom Brokaw | ||
| e8b286d | immediately, the Battle of Arnhem. It was a joint mission of American and British paratroopers, and their objective was to take the Nijmegen bridge to help pave the Allies' way into Germany and to discourage any German counterattack. "We jumped at about five hundred feet because we wanted to be a low target. It was one-thirty in the afternoon. "The first" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| a820fe7 | gesture | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c290e19 | postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly insurance broker in his neighborhood. Not too long after that, Broderick had established his own insurance | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 3e27ddb | despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 800c9ca | came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over | Tom Brokaw | ||
| bf241b3 | At one time he owned as many as three buildings divided up into rental units. It was as a landlord and as a black man who had overcome so much on his own that he came to hate the welfare system that grew so fast in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. "It just killed ambition," according to Holmes. "I had all of these tenants who in their late twenties had never worked a day in their life. They just waited around for that government check. .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b1c886f | A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility. Broderick remembers listening to an NPR broadcast and hearing an account of how two boys found a loaded gun in one of their homes. The visiting boy accidentally shot his friend. The victim's father was on the radio, talking about suing the gun manufacturer. That got to Tom Broderick. "So," he said, "here's this man talking about suing and he's no.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 91b83f3 | Kill a Mockingbird's small-town setting is what stuck with NBC's Tom Brokaw, who grew up in small towns throughout South Dakota and knew "not just the pressures that [Atticus] was under, but the magnifying glass that he lived in. This all takes place in a very small environment. People who live in big cities don't have any idea of what the pressures can be like in a small town when there's something controversial going on." When Allan Gurga.. | Harper Lee | ||
| aa8bf4d | wanted | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 3905299 | established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4bef6ca | Then, just as there was a glimmer of economic recovery, war exploded across Europe and Asia. When Pearl Harbor made it irrefutably clear that America was not a fortress, this generation was summoned to the parade ground and told to train for war. They left their ranches in Sully County, South Dakota, their jobs on the main street of Americus, Georgia, they gave up their place on the assembly lines in Detroit and in the ranks of Wall Street,.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| e24a48c | coincidence they're there. They don't seem | Tom Brokaw | ||
| dcf6aa5 | lot | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 0ad35c5 | Cancer of whatever flavour triggers a reflective gene: Just let me live and I will learn to be a better person. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 903bb4b | When the war ended, more than twelve million men and women put their uniforms aside and returned to civilian life. They went back to work at their old jobs or started small businesses; they became big-city cops and firemen; they finished their degrees or enrolled in college for the first time; they became schoolteachers, | Tom Brokaw |