Quotes by : James A. Michener

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

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and....

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature.....

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason....

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do....