"Love is sweeping the country."

-- Ira Gershwin

#Music Quotes #Country Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”
“I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.”
“The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.”

Source : Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books
“When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.”
“Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
“The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.”
“As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

Source : Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.110
“The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.”

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