"I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'"

-- Aretha Franklin

#Song Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Dad Quotes

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source : George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.158
“Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water isÂ Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.”
“It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!”
“They were numerically outnumbered.”
“I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.”
“I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.”
“Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.”
“I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.”

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