Jane Jarrell Smith

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    The report reflects incredibly terrible judgments, shockingly sparse concern for human life, instances of officials lacking the courage to exercise the responsibilities of their high office and some very bewildering thought processes.
    —Jane Jarrell Smith, U.S. widow of American astronaut Michael J. Smith. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 13 (June 30, 1986)

    If I can think of it, it isn’t what I want.
    I want . . . I want a ship from some near star
    To land in the yard,
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)