#er

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#age #attacked #born #bought #december

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#everybody #exciting #kind #radio

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#corn #ever #first #get #half

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#either #further #had #i #intention

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #fortitude #goals #impossible #inspirational

I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

— Lonnie Donegan

#american #folk #folk music #i #i always

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. ↗