"Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.."

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Source : Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4, August 2, 1978.

John Betjeman

#Hymns Quotes #Tunes Quotes #Folks Quotes

“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.”
“The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.”
“Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
“I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.”

Source : "Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls". www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.
“Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.”
“No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money”

Source : Samuel Gompers, Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Marla J. Hughes, Mary C. Jeske (1991). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98”, p.48, University of Illinois Press
“Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.”
“Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.”

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