"In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United."

-- Matt Busby

#Country Quotes #Clubs Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.”

Source : Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”
“There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.”
“Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.”
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

Source : The Phantom Tollbooth (p. 247)
“Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.”
“The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2015). “Citizen Doctorow, Notes on Art & Politics: The Nation Essays 1978-2015”, p.56, The Nation Co. LLC
“Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

Source : "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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