"I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano."

-- Carla Bley

#Teacher Quotes #Father Quotes #Years Quotes

“The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.”
“When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I work out every day. Mostly it's free weights and cardio. I don't do that stuff where they throw logs at you, what's it called, cross-fit. None of that. Mainly it's just me in the gym, lifting weights.”
“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
“I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"”
“I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.”

Source : Jim Cymbala, Dean Merrill (1999). “Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People”, p.45, Zondervan
“Kill them all and let God sort them out.”
“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

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