"Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less……" — Rosemary Mahoney
"Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?"
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Rosemary Mahoney
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19 Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney has 19 quotes on this site.
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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
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I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really…
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One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in…
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A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille…
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful…
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One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of…
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I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
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As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
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My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she…
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in…
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The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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