Kenneth Roberts

Kenneth Roberts
An American writer of historical novels, he is best known for Northwest Passage, Arundel, and Rabble in Arms. He posthumously received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his body of literature.
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1885
CityKennebunk, ME
community interested involved kids smile wife wonderful
My wife was very much into community service, especially with our kids involved in sports. She was very interested in volunteerism, always had a big smile and was a tireless gardener. This is a wonderful remembrance, really.
close goal health
My goal is to close the Fortunato Breast Health Center.
clear rights singled whipping
We clear so many rights and permissions that something's going to get missed. We've been singled out as a whipping boy.
hope prices rest stayed
If prices stayed up, we'd have to rebudget. It's come down ome, so I hope we can make it the rest of the year.
self effort mind
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.
war army winning
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.
art war widows-and-orphans
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.