"Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is."

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Source : "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.

Louis Armstrong

#Cat Quotes #Sick Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.”
“I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.”
“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”
“This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1856). “A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians”, p.360
“You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.”
“The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”
“When I first started playing, I definitely had a younger scum-punk crowd, but as my music developed more and after I started playing electric guitar - you'd think it would be opposite - but a lot of people were like, "You've changed." And I have more of an older audience now.”
“The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.”

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