Al Roker Quotes

Wij zijn als regendruppels die, tegen het raam van een voortrazende trein geblazen, met kleine rukjes verder kruipen; niemand kan precies voorspellen welke weg ze zullen volgen, al komen ze op den duur wel allemaal aan de rand van het glas terecht, om te vervloeien en te verdwijnen.

In a democracy, so the saying goes, the people get the government they deserve. Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe race consciousness among whites. Any black person who’s worked in the professional world is well acquainted with this trick. But never has it been practiced at such a high level, and never have its limits been so obviously exposed. This need to talk in dulcet tones, to never be angry regardless of the offense, bespeaks a strange and compromised integration indeed, revealing a country so infantile that it can countenance white acceptance of blacks only when they meet an Al Roker standard.

Walk around your house. We’ve heard about people, stymied by bad weather or poor air quality, who’ve set up obstacle courses in their homes just to get more steps in. Sure, you’re not going to rack up the miles, but it’s better than nothing. Or consider a treadmill. Al Roker, the Today Show weatherman, vowed to walk more after a prostate cancer diagnosis. To avoid New York City’s cold temps (and who better than a weatherman to know when to stay inside?), Al took to walking in place—a very good idea.

Pulitzer was the first to cram a paper with pictures and games under shrieking headlines. He offered eight packed pages of thrilling content for only two cents.

John Harvey Kellogg’s sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. There

fifty states, taking

And Willis Moore, the bureau director, who did so much in 1900 to deny the reality—first the existence, and then the path—of the most destructive hurricane ever to arrive in the United States, and did so much to prevent Galvestonians from learning about it in advance, continued his career too. As director, Moore oversaw such changes in weather technology as

Texas and the American South, and indeed throughout the rest of the booming country as well. Even

While African Americans had long played important roles in civic life, while the docks had seen the progress of the Negro Longshoreman’s Union, and while all kinds of people mingled in the city streets, much of Galveston’s social and political life had long involved rigid racial segregation.

Max turned to Trey. “You’re the expert

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it’s fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And

Martyn Robert, late of the Army Corps of Engineers and author of Robert’s Rules of Order,

Only a fellow white Protestant did not require such

didn’t know what I would do if I lost Aunt Ginny. We’d gone through a lot together. I’d fully expected her to be honored by Al Roker and the Smucker’s jelly people one day. Sass and stubbornness were all that was holding her together, and they don’t have a pill for that yet if it fails. She had been good to me my whole life. My mother dumped me on her doorstep when I was a kid. She had raised me, and I repaid her with a hasty exodus the moment the ink was dry on my high school diploma. If I could take it all back for a few more years with her, I would do it in a blink. Now I was responsible for her well-being.