His mother, the only woman, he had ever known told him to read the Bible and read it every day.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

He told him that a strong decision in the Dred Scott case might do much to bring peace to the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Buchanan told him that slavery in the territory must be decided on the votes of the people of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

His father told him that their ancestors were the kings and queens of the Olmecs, Toltecs,Mayans,Aztecs and other ancient peoples.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He said girls in one Dakar school told him about a lack of bathrooms and textbooks for them, and bullying from boys.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

In eighteen-twenty-three, at the age of eighteen, Smith claimed that an Angel told him of a golden book.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Sue told him about Johnsy and how she feared that her friend would float away like a leaf.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The stiff,crackling noises of frozen animal skins told him that the chiefs tent was being torn down.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

When Charles was five, his teacher told him: "Some day,Charles, you are going to be an artist."

VOA: special.2009.10.25

The old men had told him that no man should travel alone in the Yukon when the temperature is sixty degrees below zero.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

During the next ten years he tried to fit the theories about how children develop with what mothers told him about their children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He quickly called for his jester and told him that his little daughter would see the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

When he was seven years old his coach told him he was not a good player.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

All she wanted to think about was what the stranger would say to her when she told him where to find the heron's nest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Webster told him that President Harrison had let the cabinet make the decisions of his administration.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

One soldier then told him: "You keep fooling around out there amongst them Apaches and the only rock you'll find will be your tombstone!"

VOA: special.2010.02.15

He told him that his army held about one thousand Union soldiers as war prisoners.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

He told him to prepare to move men and supplies by sea to Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06