#ding

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. ↗

— Barney Ross

#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#am #book #girl #herself #i

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#breaking #bush #children #education #education reform

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#building #chaotic #create #easier #living

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#about #american #blind #englishman #leading

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#any #bedding #before #colder #dawn

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#certainly #get #his #holding #hope