« All Cary Quotes
·
Giles Foden's Page
Cary Quotes by Giles Foden
1 Cary quote by Giles Foden
More Quotes by Giles Foden
Giles Foden has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the…
-
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as…
-
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
-
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
-
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce…
-
I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the…
-
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
-
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective…
-
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
-
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
-
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
-
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
See all 15 quotes by Giles Foden »
More Cary Quotes
Popular Cary quotes from across the collection:
-
Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey…
— Lauren Bacall
-
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you…
— Cary Grant
-
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
— Gene Kelly
-
I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more…
— Irene Dunne
-
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee…
— Tony Goldwyn
-
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.
— Peggy Lee
-
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
— Aaron Eckhart
-
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience…
— Fay Wray
-
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.
— Jean Arthur
-
I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and…
— Dennis Farina
-
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
— Aaron Eckhart
-
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught…
— Andre Benjamin
See all Cary Quotes »
Browse Giles Foden Quotes by Category