"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Birthday Quotes #Time Quotes #Years Quotes

“time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.”
“I've learned my feelings and thoughts are secondary to what needs to get done - that what matters is the next right action.”
“Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.”
“If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there”
“I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.”

Source : "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.
“I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.”
“Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.”
“Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.”

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