Jethro Burns Quotes & Sayings

Mortality is like the cold. It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you'll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through." Alessandro waited to hear what that was, but his father would not say. "If you don't discover it yourself, it will be nothing more than an exhortation from me. — Mark Helprin

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played. — Mstislav Rostropovich

The sun is new every day. (Fragment 6) — Heraclitus

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. — Richard M. Nixon

Those whom we did not know think they know us now. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. — Max Lerner

The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other. — Erich Fromm