Roger Bennett > Quotes

“Live fast, die young, leave clean underpants”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“You need to know these people are malingerers...Ignore them. Make them small. Your work is big. Make your future big. Remember the Cod. That is all that matters.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“You just don't want their present to be your future...Don't be afraid Benji. The only question you should ask yourself is, do you have the tenacity to make those dreams real?”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“As anyone who knows my family would acknowledge, Bennetts are quick to judge and slow to forgive. IF remembering slights and human wrongdoing was an Olympic pursuit, we would definitely medal. We cling to perceived insults like other families treasure happy memories.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“American fans showed me there could be another way, that attending sports could be about something more important: an excuse to drain light beers and consumer vast quantities of sausage-based product.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“To my grandfather, these and countless other objects in his collection were no mere tchotchkes. Their importance lay in the sense memory they triggered”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“I did learn this, though: There are few better ways of ensuring your offspring become bleeding-heart liberals than to expose them to poverty and squalor rife in the low-income housing estates of England”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“We have an America we can dream about again,” he said with a note of astonishment, as if this should have been totally obvious.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“Bullshit baffles brains”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“British officers who survived Second World War prisoner camps teach us that life, lads, is about suffering,' he said. 'The whole point is the dignity with which you face up to that suffering.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“There is nothing wrong with dreaming. So, be a man of action. Give me a higher love. It's that higher love that I keep thinking of.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“If remembering slights and human wrongdoing was an Olympic pursuit, we would definitely medal. We cling to perceived insults like other families treasure happy memories.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“Love is hard. Love between one person and another: That is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“Thanks also to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago White Sox, the Washington Capitals, the Tulane Green Wave, and, above all, Everton Football Club, for providing me with sporting narratives that accompany my existence like a joyous bass line. For all of them, glory is a precious, rare emotion. I appreciate that as a reflection of life itself. Never take a second for granted. Make memories while you still can.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“As I read those chapters with their cloying themes of colonialism and British triumph out loud, I did so with a heart that rooted desperately for the natives to wise up, rise up, and destroy their Anglo overseers, and throw off the soul-crushing yoke of empire.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“My father was an impatient man, quick to fury. My mother was filled with love and always struggled to give me the benefit of the doubt.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“Be the protagonist in life, Roger! Take control!”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“It might be flawed,' my dear friend answered. 'That doesn't matter. We all need something to believe in and it's the best thing we have. The entire world is a better place when we call all dream about the US.' God Bless America”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home