Famous Sayings

Some singing quotes and sayings.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
~Maya Angelou

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing
~ Richard Byrd

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb

He who sings frightens away his ills.
~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
~ Aretha Franklin

As long as we live, there is never enough singing.
~Martin Luther

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears, and skim away.
~Alfred Tennyson

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~Emory Austin

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek.
~ John Milton

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~ Paul Robeson

Singing becomes a form of therapy.
~Placido Domingo

I don’t want to be just a straight pop singer. I’m a vocalist and that’s what I want to be seen as in the long run.
~ Christina Aguilera

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
~Ella Fitzgerald

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it’s all just one thing.
~ Jennifer Lopez

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~Franz Liszt

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard “Heartbreak Hotel” I thought, this is it”
~Paul McCartney

These are some inspirational quotes on Music.

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
~Sergei Rachmaninov

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley,

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
~ Florent Schmitt

Where words fail, music speaks.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
~Bob Marley

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
~Frank Zappa

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
~ Miles Davis

I’d like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I’d be happy.
~ Jimi Hendrix

“He that will not reflect is a ruined man.”
~Chinese Proverb

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them make them.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
~Hecato, Greek philosopher

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is my favorite quote on personal growth, “Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
~James Bryant Conant

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
~Aristotle

“Heaven never helps the man who will not act.”
~Sophocles

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great.”
~ Mark Twain

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
~Aristotle

“The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be…because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
~ Richard M. DeVos

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Here are some passion quotes and sayings from sayingspage.com

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
~ Carl W. Buechner

“The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
~Yves Saint Laurent

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
~Denis Diderot

“Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind.”
~Jareb Teague

“You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ”
~Garrison Keillor

“Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.”
~ Glade Byron Addams

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
~ John Maxwell

“I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.”
~Nina Berberova

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means”
~ William Hazlitt

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry,their passions a quotation.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“Never underestimate the power of passion.”
~ Eve Sawyer

“Renew your passions daily.”
~Abbe Yeux-verdi

“Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
” ~John Wesley

Some of our favorite gratitude quotes and sayings.

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward

“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.”
~French Proverb

” In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
~Thomas Erskine

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
~Sarah Caldwell

“Let’s be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.”
~Marcel Proust

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ”
~William Faulkner

“Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.”
~Thomas Fuller

“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ”
~R.H. Blyth

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
~Aldous Huxley

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”
~Chinese Proverb

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality”
~Alfred Painter

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
~Cicero

“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
~ Edward Gibbon

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
~Johannes A. Gaertner

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~Marcel Proust

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
~Meister Eckhart

“Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”
~Rabindranath Tagore

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
~Denis Waitley

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
~John E. Southard

“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. ” ~Frank A. Clark

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
~Epictetus

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~ Gladys Browyn Stern

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
~Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
~ Dorothy Parker

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward

“Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”
~Oprah Winfrey

“To the grateful man give more than he asks.”
~Spanish Proverb

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
~ Anthony Robbins

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
~Italian Proverb

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.”
~Sam Walton

“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ”
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~G.B. Stern

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic”
~John Henry Jowett

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
~Margaret Cousins

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
~Brian Tracy

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
~Eric Hoffer

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
~Henry Clay

“Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ”
~Verbena Woods

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”
~Alfred Painter

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
~Jean Baptiste Massieu

We have been attacked and attacked again and again. On all soils.
Our enemies have no boundaries today and they are fighting a global war.
One day in Iraq, another dayin Ethen, then new delhi, then Mumbai, new york etc.

Our sense of nationalism and patriotism gets ignited for those few days in the aftermath and then we go on with our lives until the next attack.

These are some patriotism quotes to remind us that we are patriots all year long and will fight any enemies.

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.”
~Socrates

“Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.”
~Oscar Wilde

” Patriotism ruins history.”
~Goethe

‘What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility … a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
~Adlai Stevenson

“He loves his country best who strives to make it best.”
~Robert G. Ingersoll

“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”
~H. L. Mencken

“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American! July 1850 speech”
~Daniel Webster

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”
~Albert Einstein

“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.”
~Seneca

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
~Lin Yutang

“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
~George Jean Nathan

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
~John F. Kennedy

“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”
~Jane Addams

“I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
~Edith Cavell

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
~Calvin Coolidge

“I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ”
~Rosika Schwimmer

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.”
~Richard Aldington

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
~Pablo Casals

“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
~J. Horace McFarland

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We are Humans and we offer sympathy. We always do, sometimes we express it, sometimes, we don’t but offer we do. We are always moved by someone else’ plight, and we offer sympathy to each other the plight is upon us together. But more often than, we are at a loss when we want to express our sympathy, and we end up saying something stupid like, “I understand”. Truth is you don’t. So we say, I am sorry.

What we have here is a collection of sympathy sayings and quotes that will come in handy, memorize them if you must. And you may also use them in Sympathy Cards, or ecards that you send.

“And you should always know, wherever you may go,
No matter where you are, I will never be far away.”
~ Billy Joel

“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.” ~Thomas Campbell

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Ingersoll

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
~William Penn

“A human life is a story told by God.”
~Hans Christian Andersen

“Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about , With silence ‘mid the world’s loud din.”
~ James Russell Lowell

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.”
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans,

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ” Robert Louis Stevenson

This are about sympathy..

“Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
~ George Eliot

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.”
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers. ” Some unknwon author put it so correctly. Here are some perfection Quotes and sayings.

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
~ Voltaire

“A good garden may have some weeds.”
~Thomas Fuller

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
~George Orwell

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
~Anna Quindlen

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”
~Edith Schaeffer

“Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”
~William Safire

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
~ Eugene Delacroix

“Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.”
~Michelle Burford,

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”
~Doug Larson

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
~Lord Chesterfield

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
~Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
~Matthew Arnold

Some Freedom Quotes and Sayings for your mind.

We have freedom but but have have lots to ask for. Lyndon B. Johnson put it best when he said, “Freedom is not enough.”

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”~ Stephen R. Covey

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus quotes

“He who is brave is free.”~ Seneca quotes

“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”~ Hubert H. Humphrey

“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”~John F kennedy

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”~ Cicero

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”~ Carl Shurz

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” ~Charles de Gaulle

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”~ Greek philosopher Thucydides

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.” ~Thomas Campbell

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires” ~Bertrand Russell quotes

“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”~ Abraham Lincoln

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. “~ Vladimir Lenin

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some cute Grandmother quotes for you people…

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
~ Pam Brown

The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.
~Flannery O’Connor

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
~Steven Adler

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author Unknown

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
~Ruben Blades

“A house needs a grandma in it.” Louisa May Alcott

“The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers”

“My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.”~ Loni Anderson

“Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that’s what my grandma taught me.”~ Lord Chesterfield

“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ” ~Author Unknown

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.” ~Judith Levy

“My great-grandmother Morrison fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes.” ~Mary Lawson

There’s no place like home except Grandma’s. ~Author Unknown

“The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.”~ Todd Bridges

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”~ Marcy DeMaree

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