#ck

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#age #attended #away #better #crossed

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#discovering #everybody #honorable #made #possible

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #neighborhood

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#because #boston #came #delano #different

Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#around #believes #course #get #know

We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#around #doing #five #guy #him

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#each #find #i #learned #life

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#leather #piece #put #steel #sticks

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#come #front #hard #hit #me

We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#backyard #conditions #hard #i #train