"I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made."

-- Ornette Coleman

#Mother Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Obedience is the pathway to blessing. Itâ€™s the means of protection. Itâ€™s the means of joy. Itâ€™s the means to finding Godâ€™s best in our lives.”
“There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.”
“The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.”
“All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.”
“We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.”
“My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...”
“In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.”
“I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.”

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