My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.


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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON
I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON
I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON
I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON
I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL
Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL
Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL
What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON
Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
WALTER WAGER
I always liked spy stories.
WALTER WAGER
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
WALTER WAGER
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
WALTER WAGER
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a...
WALTER ULBRICHT
May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
WALTER ULBRICHT
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr...
WALTER ULBRICHT
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine...
WALTER ULBRICHT
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe...
WALTER ULBRICHT
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...
WALTER ULBRICHT
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
WALTER ULBRICHT
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ...
WALTER ULBRICHT
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f...
WALTER ULBRICHT
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT