John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
John Lancaster Spalding
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
Faith Hill
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
E. L. Konigsburg
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
Ina Garten
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
Parker Palmer
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
Rajneesh
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Ira Glass
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.
Jacob Batalon
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
Lexa Doig
Everybody says the first cut if the deepest. It's so true. I don't know if it's because it's the best love, but it's the first that you remember. There is one boy that I will remember for the rest of my life, and I wouldn't go as far as to say, 'Oh I was in love with him and he broke my heart'. You hold on to that, just that first experience, it's good to have and you should appreciate it, even if it hurts.
Kristen Stewart
A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
Beau Mirchoff
People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.
Jared Kushner
As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
John Lancaster Spalding
