Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Jon Meacham

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Jon Meacham

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

Jon Meacham

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

Jerry Saltz

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

J. C. Watts

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Colin Wilson

Animals interest me more than anything else.

Douglas Brinkley

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

Deborah Harkness

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

John Edward Christopher Hill

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Jesse Jackson

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

John Keegan

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.

John Kitzhaber

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Jill Lepore

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore