#pa

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#approach #ashore #completely #dispatched #doubt

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#going #good #good writing #i #i think

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#parents #very #were

I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids. ↗

— Ray Combs

#been #being #bids #cbs #excited

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it. ↗

— Perry Como

#could #day #drive #family #fish

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ↗

— Marquis de Condorcet

#comparing #enjoy #life #own #without

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#audience #back #care #chant #crowd

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#never #never forget #paid #price #sacrifice