Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
By : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
By : George Bernard Shaw
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
By : Jessica Lange
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
By : Robert Byrd
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
By : Ezra Pound
We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
By : Jane Elliott