Blumenreich Thun Quotes & Sayings

Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home. — Mahalia Jackson

I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first! — Karl G. Maeser

Perception is made up of bands. — Frederick Lenz

When you make a Bargain with a devil you better follow through. — Gloria Gravitt Moulder

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. — Edgar Allan Poe

She moved over the surface of life the way figure skaters move, fast and choreographed, but she never broke through the ice, she never pierced the surface and descended into those awful beautiful waters, she was never submerged and she never learned to swim in those currents, these currents: all the shadows and light and splendorous horrors that make up the riptides of life on earth. — Emily St. John Mandel

I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds. — S.W. Southwick