#miss

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#any #ask #below #him #law

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#game #going #i #identify #just

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#enough #fulfilled #general #general good #good

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#came #clean #commissioner #conference #downstairs

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion. ↗

— David Rudisha

#champion #end #games #good #i

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#class #expected #here #knowledge #me

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? ↗

— Adam Sandler

#doing #else #feel #friends #girlfriend

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#called #college #degree #denver #got

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#ask #deployed #dialogue #door #give