"A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth."

-- Mickey Mantle

#People Quotes #Roger Quotes

“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”
“All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.”
“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.”
“I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.”
“I paint flowers to prevent them from dying”
“London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?”

Source : "Jourdan Dunn first black British model to enter Forbes rich list" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.
“I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.”
“I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.”

Source : Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press

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