Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
Tatum O'Neal
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of... →
Meghan O'Rourke
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation.... →
P. J. O'Rourke
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write... →
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
Joyce Carol Oates
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be... →
I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical... →
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the... →
Barack Obama
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely... →
Hermann Oberth
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
Ric Ocasek