"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."

--

Robert A. Heinlein

#Accomplishment Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.”
“In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.”

Source : Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”
“It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.”
“To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.”
“We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.”
“I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.
“My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.”

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