"To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Wine Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In God we trust; all others pay cash.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (1978). “The Phantom of the Open Hearth: A Film for Television Co-Ordinated by Leigh Brown”, Doubleday Books
“Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.”

Source : Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”
“I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.”
“The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”
“Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made”
“We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past. . .while we silence the rebels of the present.”

Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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