Mornings On Horseback: The Story Of An Extraordinary Family, A Vanished Way Of Life, And The Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
"He cared nothing for public acclaim, 'never put himself forward,' as friends would remember."
"I always believe in showing affection by doing what will please the one we love, not by talking."
"My personal impression... is that he was a large, broad, bright, cheerful man with an intense sympathy with everything you brought to him."
"It was as though he was in league with them. As Ellie once told him, he was one of those rare grown men who seem never to forget that they were once children themselves."
"Courage he rewarded openly and sometimes with dramatic effect."
"No city offered more opportunity for those wishing to do something for the good of mankind; his joy, he said, was being connected with new work, worthy institutions in their infancy, the influence of which would be felt throughout the country."
"Every hour must be accounted for and one must also enjoy everything one did. Get action, he said. Seize the moment. 'Man was never intended to become an oyster.'"
"Theodore was no more averse to using an expression like 'our class' than was anyone else of comparable background."
"He wrote nearly every day. May 13: 'Everything begins to look like spring... We have little glimpses of country over Mr. Goelet’s wall and the sounds of his numerous birds... It is just such a day as would give you a pleasant impression of a New York spring.'"
"As difficult for her as anything about her new life in the North was the separation from her mother and sister."
"I have a soldier who always rides behind me to show me the way."
"Mama and Papa both tried to make it up when they saw what she had done."
"What will almost universally relieve one case, will as assuredly induce a paroxysm in another."
"In spite of this rare beauty and her wit and charm, she never seemed to know that she was unusual in any degree."
"The nature of an actual attack is described by Salter in accurate, vivid detail and with considerable sympathy for anyone who had to try to deal with the situation."
"The crux of the issue was the degree to which the government had knowingly participated in the creation of the Alabama and under what circumstances the ship had escaped from Liverpool to begin her reign of destruction."
"With modern drugs, with potent bronchodilators like epinephrine, ephedrine, or aminophylline, such a state can usually be avoided, the attack kept within bounds."
"The stories of her eccentricities are nearly all based on a later time in her life and seldom take into account several important factors."
"The child known by the outside world is the child between attacks who appears to have little or nothing the matter with him."
"Nor, we find, is there a seasonal pattern to the attacks."
"Indeed, from looking at the diaries one might be inclined to see the attacks as entirely random."
"His asthma strikes on weekends, usually Saturday night or what was actually early Sunday morning."
"But the number of times in which Sunday figures as his bad day is astonishing."
"The worst attacks, moreover, virtually all occur on Sunday."
"The pattern is too pronounced to be coincidental."
"In Teedie’s case the answer may lie in the nature of Sunday itself."
"The asthmatic child knows he is an oddity; that somehow, for some reason no one can explain, he is a defective, different."
"But he knows also that his particular abnormality lends a kind of power."
"He has learned at an early age what a precarious, unpredictable thing life is—and how very vulnerable he is."
"A great weight was taken off my shoulders when Elliott read the other morning that the Senate had decided not to confirm me, no one can imagine the relief."
"The doctor says that there is no cause for anxiety as it is only necessary to avoid all excitements for two or three years and he will entirely outgrow it."
"He sleeps in my bed. I think it would be very wise for Theodore and himself to occupy the large bed in [the] back third-story room for while together."
"You will have to assume more of the responsibilities of elder brother when we return."
"His sickness at night, although worse, often reminds me of your old asthma, both of you showed so much patience and seemed more sorry on account of those about you than for yourselves."
"I scarce know how I will come back to active life again," Theodore wrote Mittie.
"Father, my own dear Father, God bless you and help me to be a good boy and worthy of you, goodbye."
"We must cooperate in the interests of the country," Hayes responded.
I am clear that I am right," he wrote in his diary. "I believe that a large majority of the best people are in full accord with me.
"I must write a few lines to my oldest boy on his eighteenth birthday. I cannot realize that you really are so old."
"He was the most wise and loving father that ever lived: I owe everything to him."
"Have been thinking about Father all evening, have had a good square breakdown, and feel much better for it."
"Every now and then there are very bitter moments; if I had very much time to think I believe I should go crazy."
"It is just one month since the blackest day of my life."
"Sundays, with all their memories, were the hardest for him."
"Am working away pretty hard, but I do not care so much for my marks now; what I most valued them for was his pride in them."
"I almost feel as if he were present with me."
"Oh, Father, Father, how bitterly I miss you, mourn you and long for you."
"Sometimes, when I fully realize my loss, I feel as if I should go mad."
"He did everything for me, and I nothing for him."
"Looking back on his life it seems as if mine must be such a weak, useless one in comparison."
"How I wish I could ever do something to keep up his name."
"I have certainly lived like a prince for my last two years in college."
"I had but little work, only enough to give me an occupation, and to crown all infinitely above everything else put together, I have won the sweetest of girls for my wife."
"No man ever had so pleasant a college course."
"I love to take my sweet little wife up the Riverside Park."
"Alice is universally and greatly admired; and she seems to grow more beautiful day by day."
"To sit and read and think for an hour here is perfect happiness."
"I have broad shoulders and am amply strong."
"I tell you yes, little Motherling, and so tenderly."
"Remember Father left me particularly to care for you."
"Our kind. The glorious freedom, the greatest excitement."
"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to."
"I have always remembered one room in which two families were living."
"Why if you don’t take him, you and Old Nell will keep house in some cozy country corner all by ourselves."
"The respectable, educated, refined young men of this city should have more weight in public matters."
"I am a Republican, pure and simple, neither a ‘Half-Breed’ nor a ‘Stalwart’; and certainly no man, nor yet any ring or clique, can do my thinking for me."
"He was the most ambitious man I ever knew."
"A man cannot act both without and within the party; he can do either, but he cannot possibly do both."
"I am by inheritance and by education a Republican; whatever good I have been able to accomplish in public life has been accomplished through the Republican Party; I have acted with it in the past, and wish to act with it in the future."
"It is a life or death struggle for the Republican Party in Chicago."
"I have taken up my work again; indeed, I think I should go mad if I were not employed."
"I intend to vote the Republican presidential ticket."
"I just long for Friday evening when I shall be with you again."
"The remedy, according to reform theory, was to simplify and concentrate power; and to make power as conspicuous as possible: give someone the responsibility and hold him responsible."
"The light has gone out of my life for ever."
"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth."
"I feel much more at ease in my mind and better able to enjoy things since we have gotten under way; I feel now as though I had the reins in my hand."
"Most of my friends seem surprised to find that I have not developed hoofs and horns,"
"You would be amused to see me, in my broad sombrero hat, fringed and beaded buckskin shirt, horsehide chaparajos or riding trousers, and cowhide boots, with braided bridle and silver spurs."
"No ranchman who loves sport can afford to be without Van Dyke’s Still Hunter, Dodge’s Plains of the Great West, or Caton’s Deer and Antelope of America."
"Ranching, wrote Theodore, had 'little in common with the humdrum, workaday business world of the nineteenth century.'"
"I never saw anyone so pleased in all my life,"
"I am writing this on an upturned water keg, by our canvas-covered wagon, while the men are making tea, and the solemn old ponies are grazing round about me."
"We shall take great pride in being Americans if we act worthily of the great inheritance."
"I am, myself, at heart as much a Westerner as an Easterner; I am proud, indeed, to be considered one of yourselves."
"His voice always seems far away and expresses more than any other sound in nature the sadness of gentle, hopeless, never-ending grief."
"The country is growing on me, more and more," he had written Bamie in June, "it has a curious, fantastic beauty of its own."