"I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it."

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Morgan Freeman

#Grew Up Quotes #Grew Quotes

“Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.”
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”

Source : Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.5, Anchor
“Crying is not an option.”
“Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.”
“I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.”
“Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.”

Source : "Scientist Lewis M. Branscomb Gives $1 Million Gift to Found New Center for Science and Democracy at UCS". ucsusa.org/news, April 30, 2012.
“God has made us humans in God's own image. So therefore the highest way to talk about God is by some kind of analogy with ourselves. So, naturally, if we who are finite and sinful suffer in multiple ways because of sin and evil and the horrible things that happen in our world, how much more does God, who is infinite, sinless, and knows the totality of all that happens to everybody, suffer pain and heartache at the suffering of his human and non-human creation - and be angry at all that causes it?”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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