Jeff Shaara quotes
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“If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.”
-- Jeff ShaaraSource : "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.
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“Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.”
-- Jeff ShaaraSource : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.170, Ballantine Books
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“I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.”
-- Jeff Shaara
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Source : "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.
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“It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.”
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“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
Source : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC
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“Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.”
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“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
Source : Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.197, Faber & Faber
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“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
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“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”
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“Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.”
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