"When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar."

-- Harry Chapin

#Song Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Jesus Quotes

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
“I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.”
“I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.”
“The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.”
“Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

Source : Ken Bruen (2015). “The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3: The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs”, p.375, Macmillan
“Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.”

Source : William Wells Brown (2012). “The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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