Stories and Quotes from the Mind* and Keyboard of A.A.Forringer

Slavery

By aaforringer on June 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave. Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born… Read More ›
Willing

By aaforringer on May 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie Dale Harbison Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November… Read More ›
Opened

By aaforringer on May 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. Bo Diddley Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was… Read More ›
Continuity

By aaforringer on May 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George… Read More ›