Spped Quotes

I was a veteran,

before I was a teenager.

There are only two

lasting bequests we can

hope to give our children

One of these is roots,

the other, wings.

The poetry of earth is never dead.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.

He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.

Drawn by its severe harmony,

ravished with its beauty,

he lived in it and had his being there.

Alone in all history,

he estimated the greatness of man.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to

those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,

it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,

deserted by all the world beside,

and I standing up boldly and lone

and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I talked and talked of everything

I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Don't be afraid

To give up the good

To go for the great.

It is not my nature,

when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles

the oppression of tyranny to make

their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens;

but rather would I do all in my power to raise

the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Experience taught me a few things.

One is to listen to your gut.

Music is the way I communicate with the world.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon

realize that space is being created in your life

for something new to emerge.

If the world comes to an end,

I want to be in Cincinnati.

Everything comes there ten years later.

If you really have conviction that they’re not right,

you need to have that long

term willingness to be misunderstood.

If you want to conquer fear,

don't sit home and think about it.

Go out and get busy

As we grow old,

the beauty steals inward.

Smile,

even if you’re dying inside.

I’m a big believer in the fact

that life is about making choices.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning,

but to teach life.