Jamie Mobley

“I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. —Rachel Carson”
― John Morelock, Run Gently Out There: Trials, trails, and tribulations of running ultramarathons

“I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“When he arrived, he found that the two most important women in his life—his mother and his young wife—were dying. At 3:00 a.m. on February 14, Valentine’s Day, Martha Roosevelt, still a vibrant, dark-haired Southern belle at forty-six, died of typhoid fever. Eleven hours later, her daughter-in-law, Alice Lee Roosevelt, who had given birth to Theodore’s first child just two days before, succumbed to Bright’s disease, a kidney disorder. That night, in his diary, Roosevelt marked the date with a large black “X” and a single anguished entry: “The light has gone out of my life.”
― Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey