Freelon Durham Quotes & Sayings

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. — John Wesley Powell

Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can. — Steven Pressfield

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy, — Mary Cheney

My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him. — Boi-1da

The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful. — Ilyas Kassam

All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together. — George Sarton

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning. — Fred Rogers

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'. — Paul McCartney

My heart swelled, so full of love I didn't know how any physical body could possibly contain such power. I felt like my chest would burst. — Richelle Mead

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. — Charles Dickens

It is inhuman to humanize animals;
it is like raising a child in a cage. — Joey Lawsin