"I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up."

-- Kirsten Nelson

#Growing Up Quotes #Couple Quotes #Carnegie Quotes

“A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.”
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.”
“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”
“You can argue with a philosopher, but you canâ€™t argue with a good song. And I think Iâ€™ve got a few good songs.”

Source : "The Cat is back" by Inayat Bunglawala, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.
“We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.”
“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.”
“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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