Quotes by Claire Robertson

About Claire Robertson:

Claire Robertson D'Amore is a female beach volleyball player from the United States who has won numerous tournaments and awards, including: six CBVA wins in a row, the gold medal in Guatemala NORCECA, the gold medal at the NORCECA Circuit 2009 at Jamaica playing with Emily Day. As an AVP player, she was rookie of the year 2006, Top upcoming Player 2007, and rated top 5 in digs from 2007–2010.
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I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty,” he said. “People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage – or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagine. I think that is one way to be not afraid:...

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Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

Claire Robertson

He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within ...

Claire Robertson

There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.

Claire Robertson

He has entertained the thought that his neighbours like having one of him in the district, having their own Englishman, although he will insist that he is as South African as they are. But perhaps his presence is more in the nature of a provocation, ...

Claire Robertson

These women who move through this landscape, holding themselves safe amid the terrible and sudden dangers, holding their limbs close to their bodies to lessen their profile, to lessen the places life can catch at them, and still maintaining movement,...

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Author Bio

  • NameClaire Robertson
  • DescriptionBeach volleyball player from the United States
  • BornJune 4, 1982