"Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil."

-- George Gershwin

#Roots Quotes #Track Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.”
“I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.”

Source : Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers
“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.”
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from May 09, 2016
“Your success does not depend on the failure of others.”
“Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.”
“Sometimes IVs and pills werenâ€™t always the best course of treatment for the injured. Sometimes all you needed was the touch of the one you loved and the sound of their voice and the knowledge that you were home, and that was enough to drag you back from the brink.”

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