"After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child."

-- Alan Jackson

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Song Quotes

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”
“When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.”

Source : "John Lee Hooker: 'Soul to soul'" by David Holzel, www.cnn.com. November 13, 2000.
“To be in the right is often an expensive business.”
“Everybody counts or nobody counts”

Source : Michael Connelly (2009). “The Last Coyote”, p.10, Allen & Unwin
“I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.
“For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.”

Source : "Dispensing with a new 'dagger' against immigration reform" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2013.
“My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.”

Source : Günter Brus, Centre Georges Pompidou (1993). “Limite du visible”
“This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.”

Source : Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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