John Coltrane Quotes

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

John Coltrane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967

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I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

Joaquin Phoenix

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A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Matthew Fox

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As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

Andy Serkis

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I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

Michael C. Hall

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When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Amy Klobuchar

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It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Steve Forbert

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I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

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Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Simon Callow

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Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Tom Tancredo

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If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Martin Seligman

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

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