#amp

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#beautiful #book #development #example #feels

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#bike #built #camping #children #dirt

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death

History is Philosophy teaching by example. ↗

— Thucydides

#example #history #philosophy #teaching

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#champion #everybody #got #help #him

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#before #champion #gong #just #know

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#becomes #best #doing #example #her

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#amp #hip-hop #i #i love #jazz