Quotes from James A. Michener

Denali, the glory of Alaska, soars to more than twenty thousand and is one of the most compelling mountains in the Americas.

The mystic perceives with his heart what the mind knows to be true... but cannot prove

especially the Japanese and Russian

Alaska has had to focus upon the

A man is never old if he can still be moved emotionally by a woman of his own age.

Tôi không yêu chi?n tranh, nhÆ°ng tôi yêu lòng can ??m mà ng??i bình th??ng dùng ?? ??i m?t vá»›i chi?n tranh.

I do wish you'd break the careless habit of using the word American as if you had stolen it from the rest of us. Use norteamericano, because we Cubans and Mexicans and Uruguayans, we're also Americans.

Traveler, you who sail into the Caribbean in silvered yacht or gilded cruise ship, pause as you enter these waters to remember that deep below rest three men of honor who helped determine the history of this onetime Spanish Lake: Sir John Hawkins, builder of the English navy; Sir Francis Drake, conqueror of all known seas; and Admiral Ledesma, stubborn enhancer of his king's prerogatives and the interests of his own strong family.

From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.

during the forthcoming even emptier years, she would still be there, a haunting vision of the other half of life, the womanliness, the caretaking symbol, the majestic, lovely, receptive other half.

The world is a muddy place, and if good men don't try to clean it up, bad men will make it a swamp.

Nor was Israel's historic claim to the land impressive; to Cullinane it was irrelevant. Once a man started opening the historical-rights barrel of eels, no one could predict where the slippery evidence might run.

Patriotism is not a matter of the skin's color. It is a matter of the heart.

when the moderates were driven out, the radicals moved in

Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous

With this acceptance of the candy, the marriage was agreed upon.

The Aleutian word for Great Land was Alaxsxaq, and when Europeans reached the Aleutian Islands, their first stopping point in this portion of the arctic, and asked the people what name the lands hereabout had, they replied "Alaxsxaq," and in the European tongues this became Alaska.

in the short run brutality always wins; it takes longer for amity to prevail.

What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life so I knew we had a country rich in opportunity, but I also met those brilliant Jews already in America who had been denied that promise.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

I've been afraid even to go out in my snowfall, let alone my blizzard.

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality: