"Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die."

-- Mel Brooks

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.”
“I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its bÃ©at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.”
“It is through others that we become ourselves.”

Source : "Brain training in the nursery" by Diane Hofkins, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2009.
“I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him.”
“Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.”

Source : John Fletcher (1860). “The Works of the Rev. John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley”, p.237
“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”
“Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.”

Source : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.9809, Delphi Classics

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