Walmir Texeira Quotes & Sayings

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. — Andrew Carnegie

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. — Carol Leifer

No one will ever know the exact number of people executed and starved to death in the Soviet Union between the time of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Communism. Soviet archives at this point do not reveal the total numbers. Unofficial estimates have ranged from twenty million to as high as eighty million. The wide range is explained in part by the fact that some estimates do not include certain groups of people who were murdered or those who died from hard labor, exhaustion, starvation, or disease (such persons were considered by the Soviets to have died of natural causes). — Wesley Adamczyk

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it. — Russell Chatham

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. — Robert Hass

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. — Mick Jagger

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs. — Johnny Rivers