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Over 10 years, these quotes have turned into something much bigger: a collection of amazing words and stories that I finally put together into a book called Last Words for the Road. I made two ...
41. "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” — Arthur Schopenhauer. 42. "Many people long for a father's love. I had it.
Samuel Leech (c. 1798–1848) was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812.He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, Thirty Years from Home, or a Voice from the Main Deck; Being the Experience of Samuel Leech, Who Was Six Years in the British and American Navies: Was Captured in the ...
He was a slave for over thirty years, spending most of that time in Tennessee. During that time, he learned in secret how to read and write. Thirty-three years after gaining freedom at the end of the Civil War, he wrote his memoir Thirty Years a Slave, published in 1897. It is considered an essential text for understanding the experience of ...
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House is a 1961 autobiographical novel by Lillian Rogers Parks written with Frances Spatz Leighton. [1] The title of the memoir was based on Parks' recollections of thirty years as a seamstress in the White House from 1931–1961 during the administrations of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. [2]
Douglas Dorsey worked on the shop floor at Boeing as an engineer for over 30 years. He said problems began in the late 1990s during a merger.
The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism is a nonfiction book by political commentator Tucker Carlson. Published by Simon & Schuster , the book is a collection of Carlson's essays, spanning several decades.
Your complete guide to funny quotes, clever jokes, and witty comebacks for every occasion. The post 100 Funniest Quotes from the Past 100 Years appeared first on Reader's Digest.