`Ethnic background . . . should not make a difference. Now with your cooperation I hope I can just be a golfer and a human being.’ – U.S. Amateur champ Tiger Woods, a freshman at Stanford University, responding to the media emphasizing his being of African-American and Asian descent.
ACTRESS EVA GABOR, WHO DIED TUESDAY AT AGE 74, ON BEING MARRIED FIVE TIMES: `Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once or twice.’
`Summering is a skill.’
Tribune columnist Mary Schmich, on needing summer resolutions to avoid squandering the short splendor of the season.
`Half the people (of Evanston) are in the parade, and the other half are watching it.’
Martha Richman, 42, on the community’s participation in Evanston’s 4th of July parade.
`Because it was there.’
Bride Ursula Wonn, on why she and John Elrod chose the top of Navy Pier’s new 150-foot Ferris wheel to say their wedding vows Tuesday.
`Move if you don’t feel a bite within 10 or 15 minutes.’
Outdoors columnist John Husar, on bass fishing in the reopened Skokie Lagoons.
`It feels good to be an American.’
Kay McCarte, one of thousands who gathered along Boston’s Charles River for the annual July 4th Boston Pops concert.
`The little girl ran up to greet him. He lifted her up above his head, like dads do, and tragically the blades above were turning and hit the little girl.’
A neighbor of British wine merchant Nicholas Hawkings-Byass, who accidentally killed his 4-year-old daughter soon after landing his private helicopter at his country estate.
`More music . . . less shtick.’
Tribune rock critic Greg Kot, on what was needed at the second of two “intimate evenings of entertainment” at the Fallout Comedy Club.
`So many people live in the area of my school; there is not a gas station or a restaurant in sight.’
Callie Pittman, who won a $1,000 scholarship along with her twin sister, Shallie, on wanting to own a family restaurant near George Washington Carver Area High School because there is so little economic development in her neighborhood.
`Lying constructively is my job description.’
Character named Richard Powers, the protagonist in the novel “Galatea 2.2,” written by DeKalb fiction writer Richard Powers.
