3 Quotes & Sayings By Jh Trumble

J.H. Trumble was born in the hills of North Carolina in 1887. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his A.B. degree in 1911 Read more

He taught high school for several years in Virginia, during which time he began writing books that became bestsellers. He also completed a Master's Degree in Education from Northwestern University in 1916, with a thesis on the life of the Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch. His first novel, Young Alonzo, was published in 1918, his second novel, The Gate City, in 1919, and his third novel, The Story of a Negro Family, in 1920.

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I’ll never understand why some people can’t just let others live their lives, you know, ” Danial said. “You don’t have to understand. You don’t have to agree. Just leave people alone. When I look at the moon and planets and stars, all that narrow-mindedness and hate seem so petty. The universe is such a big place. One hundred thousand light years just from one end of the Milky Way to the other. One hundred. Thousand. Light years. In the time it’s taken for light to travel from one end of our galaxy to the other, thousands of generations have passed. It really makes you realize how small we are, doesn’t it? How short our time on earth is. J.H. Trumble
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I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you J.H. Trumble