"I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration."

-- Jackie DeShannon

#Growing Up Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Clear skies will mean you are happy. Rain will mean you're crying. Sunset means you are embarrassed. Night will mean you are gently holding me.”
“On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.”
“There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,”
“For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.”

Source : Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.293, Routledge
“The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States”
“I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.”
“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”
“In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.”

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