"I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her."

-- Cissy Houston

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.”

Source : Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”
“Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.”
“People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.”
“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars...”
“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”
“Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.”
“You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!”
“Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.”

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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