Character
Lewis R. Freeman, a journalist, adventurer, movie-maker, and football coach, came to know Armstrong well in 1920 during a boat trip down the Columbia. Freeman described Armstrong, and as "one of the most picturesque personalities in the pioneering history of British Columbia":
| “ | Short, compact, but cleanly-built, with iron-gray hair, determined jaw, and black piercing eyes, he has been well characterized as "the biggest little man on the upper Columbia". Although he confessed to sixty-three years he might well have passed for fifty ... . | ” |
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Famous quotes containing the word character:
“Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent—a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.”
—Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)
“Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)