Satchel Paige Quotes
I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
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I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
