"The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide."

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Lesley Garrett

#Musical Quotes #Heritage Quotes #Yorkshire Quotes

“Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.”
“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that; I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.”
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”
“Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.”
“I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.”
“Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.”

Source : John R. Rice (1941). “Tears in Heaven”, p.13, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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