"Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune."

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Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.7, Applewood Books

Daniel Boone

#Determination Quotes #Home Quotes #Kentucky Quotes

“Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.”

Source : Jeff Bollow (2004). “Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed”, p.15, Embryo Films
“There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences.”
“If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.”
“Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.”
“It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.”
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
“It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.”
“At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war, listened to records, all those things. The same faces were always around on the mountain. If [Adolf] Hitler and Eva [Braun] had an argument there, it would have been obvious to me, because I knew Eva.”

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