"Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be."

-- Common

#Hip Hop Quotes

“There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.”
“Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.”
“I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.”
“I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown into Heathrow maybe twice.”
“Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.”
“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?”

Source : Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.559, ReadHowYouWant.com
“That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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