Upraised Part Quotes & Sayings

Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance. — Misty Copeland

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand. — Allan Kozinn

Gramps had the radio on, tuned to the only station that the authorities allowed us mere lava mites to listen to. Dripple for the workers of the Motherland. They sang it loud, they sang it clear: "And once those feet did tread upon silver sand And footprints deep marked out new moons of Motherland Which all salute with upraised hand." I went upstairs and put on my school uniform. Every part of me dead. Limp. Dead. — Sally Gardner

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. — Og Mandino

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. — E.W. Howe

A real leader knows how to help people learn to do things themselves. — Jill Marie Richardson

The greatest changes in a woman's nature are wrought by love; in a man's, by ambition. — Rabindranath Tagore

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made. — Edith Wharton

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate. — Bernie Siegel

The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what? — Raja Rao

Don't give - give up! — Ian Gardner

There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA. — Jonathan Wells

Hierarchy and discipline gave shape to the world;that was what he had always believed.Life was made easy by adherence toa rigid structure.But maybe that only really worked when you were at the top of the ladder,when you were doing well.The further down the rungs you went,the more of a victim of circumstances you became and the less it mattered whether or not you were in control. — James Lovegrove

Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger.

This is the story of how we got there. — Fredrik Backman

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. — Lawrence Weschler