"Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville."

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Source : Source: tech.blorge.com

Karen Abbott

#Kids Quotes #June Quotes #Rose Quotes

“When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.”
“If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.”
“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
“I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.”
“I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.”
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
“You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.”
“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening â€” I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”

Source : Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House

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