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Johnny Mathis Quotes

The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

Johnny Mathis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1935

Topics

Work Children Joy City Me Mom

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Jim McKelvey

Science Book Thought Better Class

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Joanna Newsom

Music I Am Doing Classical Music Am

I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.

Jens Voigt

Nature Great People Believe Slow

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Jeffrey Tate

New York Edge Come And Go Go New

I write and walk and swim and drink.

John le Carre

Walk Drink Write Swim I Write

Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.

John Lewis

Faith Freedom Ride Prayer Spiritual

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Robert Sheckley

Process Self-Doubt Novel Often

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

Anna Chancellor

Father Mother Children Parents Two

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

Women Men Woman Man Men And Women

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

Life Fear Death People Living

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

Luke James

Mother Me Baby Drive Think Hunger

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christine Keeler

Generation Everybody Sins Really