Flute Quotes

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know

how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Yesterday is not ours

To recover,

But tomorrow is ours

To win or lose

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:

am I or are the others crazy?

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Push your limits;

that’s where greatness lives.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

When we stand together,

we are unstoppable.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,

even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

Somehow,

not only for Christmas,

but all the year,

our hearts were light.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth

and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity

before it is entitled to the appellation.

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

You're wasting my time.

Look at the sky.

We are not alone.

The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only

to give the best to those who dream and work.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Ultimately,

education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth.

It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.