“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.”
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“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”
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“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
― Our Town
― Our Town
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