28 Quotes by Peter Taylor

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process.

My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I left Memphis behind, to take up residence in Manhattan, he remained simply a barrier between me and any independent life I might aspire to- a barrier to any pursuit of ideas, interests, goals that my temperament guided me toward.

Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one’s parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process. I kept repeating this to myself, as though it were a lesson I would at some future time be accountable for. A certain oblivion was what we must undergo in order to become adults and live peacefully with ourselves.

But maybe it was only that Father was thinking that he must arrive in Memphis with the entire family household intact if he was to make a new go of things...He did enter so, and perhaps that is what sustained him in the years immediately afterward, sustained him and in some degree destroyed the rest of us.

The referee should have booked someone an hour and a half earlier, Come on lad, hurry up with those warm-ups or it's a yellow card for you.

Leroy is very, very dangerous in the penalty area, and he knows how to take a goal. He is a confident boy.

I think he's got a future at the highest level but for the time being he will get some first-team experience here.

When a player you saw in a youth game goes on to play in the first team and starts scoring goals, you always remember the name.

Environment Australia will now move to the next stage of the process and I look forward to further cooperation and negotiations with stakeholders, in particular, the fishing industry,