"Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing."

-- Petra Haden

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #Dad Quotes

“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
“The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.”
“You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“An undertaking beset with danger.”
“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”
“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

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