Alger Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• [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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Alger Quote by Manny Farber
• 1 Alger Quote by Zora Neale Hurston
• 1 Alger Quote by Hunter S. Thompson
• 1 Alger Quote by Rick Perlstein
• 1 Alger Quote by Paul Galanti
• 1 Alger Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1 Alger Quote by Marion Meade
• 1 Alger Quote by Waverley Root
• 1 Alger Quote by David Frum