Allison Lichtenberg

“The vast majority of the sources for this book are pulled from the oral history projects housed at seven institutions: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (New York City), the 9/11 Tribute Museum (New York City), the Arlington County Public Library Oral History Project (Virginia), C-SPAN (Washington, D.C.), the Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (The Pentagon, Virginia), the Flight 93 National Memorial (Shanksville, Pennsylvania), and the U.S. House of Representatives Historian’s Office (Washington, D.C.), as well as interviews and stories collected by myself.”
― Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

“Gently I pointed out that it should be “sheep,” and though he was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he launched into an interrogation as to why the singular should be the same as the plural and wanted to know all the other English words which had this peculiarity.”
― James Herriot, The Lord God Made Them All

“In the seventh inning fans all get up and sing, ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game,’ and they’re already there!” Andersen says. “It’s really a stupid thing to say and I don’t know who made ’em sing it. Why would somebody that’s there get up and sing ‘Take me out to the ball game?’ The first person to do it must have been a moron.” It could have been”
― Hal Bodley, How Baseball Explains America

“See if she can stick her own straw in a Capri Sun (this should be on state testing).”
― Gerry Brooks, Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches