"My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right."

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Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

James McBride

#Years Quotes #America Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.”
“To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.”
“Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.”
“Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.”
“I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.”
“Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,”
“Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.”

Source : "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.

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