"A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing."

-- Barbara Johnson

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“Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.”
“Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.”
“I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.”

Source : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”
“the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1986). “A concert of tenses: essays on poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.”
“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

Source : "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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