memorable quotes
Memorable Quotes: Rosa Parks, on freedom
“As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from…”
...April 24th, 2025
Memorable Quotes – Mark Twain, on the pattern of a civilization’s destruction
“Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the…”
...March 30th, 2025
Memorable Quotes – James Joyce, on aging
“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of…”
...March 17th, 2025
Memorable Quotes – Henry David Thoreau, on music
“When I hear music, I feel no danger. I am…”
...January 23rd, 2025
A Memorable Quote by Maya Angelou…(and a short message of gratitude and faith)
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the…
...November 27th, 2024
Memorable Quote: H.L. Mencken…
. . Ben Pinchot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . “I believe it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.” . -H. L. Mencken . . Listen … Continue reading “Memorable Quote: H.L. Mencken…”
...November 6th, 2024
Memorable Quote:…Martin Luther King
. . photo via Pixabay . “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” . -Martin Luther King . . ___ . . Listen to the 1963 recording of Oscar Peterson performing “Hymn to Freedom,” with Ray Brown (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums). [Universal … Continue reading “Memorable Quote:…Martin Luther King”
...November 4th, 2024
Memorable Quote….Abraham Lincoln, on labor
“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor…”
...September 2nd, 2024
Memorable Quote – Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside…”
...July 3rd, 2024
Memorable Quote: Martin Luther King, on what hate destroys, and the challenge of change
“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his…”
...January 15th, 2024
Memorable Quote: George Gershwin on composing “Rhapsody in Blue”
“…The rhapsody, as you see, began as a purpose, not a plan.. I tried to conceive the composition as a whole…”
...October 4th, 2023
Memorable Quote: Franklin Roosevelt…on Labor Day
“Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an…”
...September 4th, 2023
Ella Fitzgerald…on being loved
“I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is…”
...August 12th, 2023
Duke Ellington on how jazz is a good “barometer of freedom”
“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved…”
...July 20th, 2023
Louis Armstrong on his vision for a wonderful world
Some of you young folks been saying to me, “Hey Pops, what you mean ‘What a wonderful world’? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful?
...July 4th, 2023
Memorable Quotes — Ornette Coleman
“Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it’s very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.”
– Ornette Coleman
1930 – 2015
...June 11th, 2015