"When Suna particularly said to me 'I really want to be best,' it was just such an instant affinity.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

said the gray-haired woman. "You see,I was nurse to the boy when it happened,and for years afterward I worked in the family.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

"Do you remember how Germont laughed when I said the mystery was difficult for him to solve because it was so simple?"

VOA: special.2009.12.26

At the time,her husband had said: "When I am gone,lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

"Well,I hope you answered them right." "Oh,I did. When he asked me your height, I said five-foot-ten."

VOA: special.2009.10.11

He said: "When I saw hard-working people suffering under debts, sickness and worries, I knew there was plenty to make up songs about."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

When the news came that the Whigs had chosen Harrison, Clay said in anger: "I am the most unfortunate man in the history of parties.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

When I tell you," said Joseph Taylor, "that he is not as fit to be president as I am, you will see how foolish this idea is."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

As Lincoln got on the train that would take him to Washington, he said: "I now leave, not knowing when -- or whether ever I may return.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And when he was going out the door, he looked back and said "Well,I do not see anything about that frog that is any better than any other frog."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there C if I go there C so I won't put all the fires out."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

When asked,they said, "I know nothing."

VOA: special.2009.05.07

His face burned with happiness when he told the Captain "She said YES to me!" He said softly, "I guess it is hard for you to think someone like Caroline might like me."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12