Quotes February 13 & 14, 2023

You know what a very famous songwriter told me? ‘Hey, nobody whistles the lyrics, you know?’
The reality is that my basic love, all the way through, was the music.
Burt Bacharach,
composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist
1928-2023
 
 
 
 
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results.”
Chuck Yeager
 
 
 
 
“It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn.”
Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 
 
 
 
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
John Locke
 
 
 
 
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy,
writer
 
 
 
 
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
 
 
 
 
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin – Author
 
 
 
 
“Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.”
James Dean
 
 
 
 
“A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, a song is no song ’til you sing it. And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
Oscar Hammerstein II from “Sound of Music”
 
 
 
 
“Don’t forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.”
Shirley Temple
 
 
 
 
Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.
Beyonce – Singer-Songwriter-Actress