"After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever."

-- Betty Carter

#Forever Quotes #Alive Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.”
“It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.”
“The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.”
“Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity.”
“Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.”
“It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.”

Source : "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
“People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.”

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