Alger Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio Alger were alive…
— Paul Galanti
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Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but…
— Marion Meade
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
— Waverley Root
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the…
— David Frum
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly…
— Manny Farber
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I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he…
— Rick Perlstein
Who Wrote These Alger Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Alger Quotes as follows: