Flatt And Scruggs Quotes & Sayings

Old age is life's parody. — Simone De Beauvoir

With people like that, no matter how long you've been apart, sometimes when you reconnect, it's just time hitting un-pause. — Priscilla Glenn

I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Sin is the move away from simple devotion to Christ. Sin is spiritual complexity. — Tony Reinke

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years. — Lester Flatt

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. — Benjamin Rush

There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick. — Bridget Carpenter

Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it. — P.G. Wodehouse

Helen's era was quite different from what most people think of when they hear the words ancient Greece. The Parthenon, the graceful statues, the works of Sophocles, Euripides, Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato, all came nearly a thousand years after Helen's time, during the classical era. In the Bronze Age, no one yet knew how to make brittle iron flexible enough to use for tools and weapons. Art, especially sculpture of the human form, was stiffer and more stylized. Few people could read or write. Instead of signing important papers, you would use a stone seal to leave an impression on clay tablets. The design on the seal would be as unique as a signature. There was a kind of writing in Bronze Age Greece, but it was mostly used to keep track of financial matters, such as royal tax records. Messages, poems, songs, and stories were not written down but were memorized and passed along by word of mouth. — Esther M. Friesner

So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self. — R. Scott Bakker

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world. — Dan Rosensweig

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him. — Ricky Skaggs