"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

-- Henry Adams

#Cheer Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Politics Quotes

“This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.”
“For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.”

Source : Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.
“I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'”
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.”
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
“I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!”
“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.”

You may also like:

Abigail Adams
Former First Lady of the United States
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculptor
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
American Politician
George Bancroft
Historian
Henry Cabot Lodge
Former United States Senator
John Adams
2nd U.S. President
John Hay
Former United States Secretary of State
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
Marian Hooper Adams
Photographer