Ralph Stanley Quotes

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

Ralph Stanley

• My Mother
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• Banjo

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• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Moments
  • Voice
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• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • My Life
  • Forget
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• I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kid
  • My Mother
  • Household

• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Written
  • Artistic
  • My Mother

• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Tea
  • My Mother
  • British Culture

• I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • America
  • Playing
  • Banjo

• First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • First
  • Spanish
  • My Mother

• My mother is a singer herself.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Singer
  • My Mother

• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • My Mother

• And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Proud
  • Daughter
  • My Mother

• My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Truth
  • Bible
  • My Mother

• My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Disease
  • Destroy
  • My Mother

• Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

  

  Ally Carter
  • Light
  • Trust
  • My Mother

• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  

  Ally Carter
  • My Mother
  • Furniture
  • Couch

• I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

  

  Beatrice Lillie
  • Age
  • My Mother
  • Meals

• I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Hair
  • My Mother
  • Comb

• For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Relation
  • My Mother
  • Englishman

• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Job
  • Eternity
  • My Mother

• Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

  

  Adam Curtis
  • Stories
  • Politicians
  • React

• Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

  

  David Batstone
  • Slavery
  • Chain
  • Industries

• In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Space
  • Businesses
  • Programmers

• I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Frustration

• When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Pain

• My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • My Mother
  • Picked
  • Banjo