Pete Seeger Quotes
One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more And because I love you I'll give it one more try To show my rainbow race It's too soon to die.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Only the young die good.
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I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
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I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.
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Speaking after receiving a German media prize award in Baden-Baden, Germany on May 25, 2017. Source: Kirschbaum, Erik (25 May 2017). 'In Berlin, Obama speaks out against hiding behind walls'. Reuters via nasdaq.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more And because I love you I'll give it one more try To show my rainbow race It's too soon to die.
