Edward Whittemore quotes

  • You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  • I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

  • And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

  • First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  • I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

  • It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  • This world is not my concern; it is myself.

  • The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.

  • Everything in this world depends upon will.

  • In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.