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I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co...
RODMAN PHILBRICK Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all acros...
RODMAN PHILBRICK Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo...
RODMAN PHILBRICK I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musc...
RODMAN PHILBRICK I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
RODMAN PHILBRICK

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a crea...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of t...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arno...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get throug...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and t...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenag...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysi...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible To...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeate...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastati...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Whaling was the oil business of its day.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most o...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I've seen a lot (of improvement) in equal amounts. From two-a-days to the first game, from the first...
BLAIR PHILBRICK We felt like we were a much better football team than we were showing. Our kids are battlers and tha...
BLAIR PHILBRICK I think our biggest priority as a football team is to keep focused, make sure the kids are having fu...
BLAIR PHILBRICK We need to prepare well, we need to play well. This is a big game for (Memorial). We know that. It's...
BLAIR PHILBRICK It's been neat to watch that group get better as the season has gone along. Our coaches have done a ...
BLAIR PHILBRICK We told the kids at half-time that we could do a lot more than we were doing. We had some turnovers ...
BLAIR PHILBRICK

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at tha...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all th...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the plane...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag...
FRANCES RODMAN Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow...
FRANCES RODMAN

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
DENNIS RODMAN

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
DENNIS RODMAN

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
DENNIS RODMAN

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or...
DENNIS RODMAN

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
DENNIS RODMAN

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and ...
DENNIS RODMAN

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bed...
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
DENNIS RODMAN Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
FRANCES RODMAN

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
DENNIS RODMAN

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
DENNIS RODMAN

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
DENNIS RODMAN

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
DENNIS RODMAN

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
DENNIS RODMAN

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
DENNIS RODMAN

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Mich...
DENNIS RODMAN

We were getting cable TV on his watch.
DENNIS RODMAN

I do love animals,
DENNIS RODMAN The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin
FRANCES RODMAN

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
DENNIS RODMAN

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the...
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
DENNIS RODMAN When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans loo...
JACK RODMAN Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a ...
PETER RODMAN

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
DENNIS RODMAN

You can love me or you can hate me
DENNIS RODMAN

Bad as I Wanna Be.
DENNIS RODMAN

It's in the top 10, ... Those people didn't think I was smart enough.
DENNIS RODMAN

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms wh...
DENNIS RODMAN

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill ...
DENNIS RODMAN

My rookie year, I was very immature.
DENNIS RODMAN

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoff...
DENNIS RODMAN We think both sides would gain by having more interaction. We would learn more about them, and perha...
PETER RODMAN

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
DENNIS RODMAN

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
DENNIS RODMAN

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
DENNIS RODMAN

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter...
DENNIS RODMAN Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else
FRANCES RODMAN Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human
FRANCES RODMAN Our girls expect to win the mile relay. If we get beat, it's like shock to them. However fast somebo...
JACK RODMAN International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.
JACK RODMAN That supply will far exceed demand, meaning owners will find it increasingly hard to rent out their ...
JACK RODMAN The scale of development here is unprecedented anywhere in the world.
JACK RODMAN We see it that the fight is still on and he knows that,
PETER RODMAN We didn't get the bounces we needed tonight. In a game like this, mistakes will kill you. But we hun...
NEIL RODMAN

I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is diffic...
DENNIS RODMAN Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasan...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure rob...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom'...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

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