"I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape."

-- Dwight Yoakam

#Children Quotes #Kentucky Quotes #Ohio Quotes

“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.”
“It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.”
“No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.”
“It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.”
“You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“when you lose your sails, row.”

Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.31, Penguin

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