"I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music."

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Source : Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

Monica Baldwin

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“I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.”

Source : Emil Artin (1965). “Collected papers”
“I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.”

Source : Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
“My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.”
“It is in my soul to spread love and laughter.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.”
“I've seldom seen a ***** player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.”
“It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.”
“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.”

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