One Afternoon Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
— Hank Aaron
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When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo…
— Jerry Lewis
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
— Charles Lindbergh
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first…
— Ralph Ellison
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When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had…
— James Keller
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
— Jack Kerouac
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a…
— Rory Stewart
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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.…
— David Sedaris
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I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research…
— Ronda Rousey
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
— Edward Thomas
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Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other…
— Geronimo
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It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon…
— Jack Gilbert
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One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to…
— Hugh Jackman
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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin…
— Kathleen Norris
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I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.
— David Sedaris
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the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon.…
— E E Cummings
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One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring…
— Victor Borge
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
— Paul Auster
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There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Who Wrote These One Afternoon Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 One Afternoon Quotes as follows: