Quote authors in 1949

Authors of 1949

Born or Deceased in 1949

Lyle Alzado

Lyle Alzado

Born :3 April 1949

Dusty Baker

Dusty Baker

Born :15 June 1949

Vida Blue

Vida Blue

Born :28 July 1949

Bill Buckner

Bill Buckner

Born :14 December 1949

Sam Ewing

Sam Ewing

Born :9 April 1949

George Foreman

George Foreman

Born :10 January 1949

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

Born :30 October 1949

Bruce Jenner

Bruce Jenner

Born :28 October 1949

Tom Kite

Tom Kite

Born :9 December 1949

Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt

Born : 1949

Joe Theismann

Joe Theismann

Born :9 September 1949

Tom Watson

Tom Watson

Born :4 September 1949

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

Born :5 October 1949

Hervey Allen

Hervey Allen

Tribute :28 December 1949

Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg

Born :18 June 1949

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Born :25 August 1949

Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner

Born :15 December 1949

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Born :26 January 1949

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow

Born : 1949

Diane Mott Davidson

Diane Mott Davidson

Born :22 March 1949

Boualem Sansal

Boualem Sansal

Born :15 October 1949

Quotes of 1949

Quotes taken from the authors in 1949

I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'

To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

I don't really trust a sane person.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

I have a lot of interests.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.