Metum Quotes & Sayings

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. — Artie Shaw

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.] — Ovid

It was weird to me to go to school all week and experience racial diversity, but then on Sunday be faced with the option of having to choose between black and white. This didn't seem right to me. The whole world outside of the church seemed to be in full color, but the church looked like the black and white television of the old days. — Efrem Smith

If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight. — Ron Kaufman

There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while
the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman
but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones. — Elizabeth Alexander

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner. — Amby Burfoot