Flute Quotes

I do believe that God

blessed me in life with

a wonderful family,

a successful career,

and a loving marriage,

and remain thankful

for that blessing.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

The point of life is to be happy,

and to bring happiness to others.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Ardently do today what must be done.

Don't come back until you've practiced.

Seize the moment.

Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’

who waved off the dessert cart.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances

was the light bulb.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country ,

we have those three unspeakably precious things,

freedom of conscience,

and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Manners require time,

and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal;

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

You see,

God helps only people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence,

and then success is sure.

I think the things you regret most in life are

the things you didn't do.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed

to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Don’t let anyone dim your shine.

Metaphors have a way of

holding the most truth

in the least space.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Passion is energy,

Feel the power,

that comes from focusing

on what excites you.