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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#farther #forward #look #see #you

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#convinced #dancing #everybody #family #father

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

A home without books is a body without soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #home #soul #without

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#anyone #family #how #i #looked

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#books #confide #dare #going #never

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#buddhism #buddhist #comes #created #deeply

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#congress #cover #i #immortal #library

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#blues #changed #complete #i #introduced