#sing

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys". ↗

— Harmon Killebrew

#brother #come #dad #father #grass

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. ↗

— Neil Kinnock

#marbles #missing #smile #tooth #without

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. ↗

— Bob Iger

#billie holiday #ella #ella fitzgerald #era #fitzgerald

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them. ↗

— Josefa Iloilo

#calm #disagree #even #fiji #help

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time. ↗

— Jack Irons

#bands #became #building #club #diego

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#always #back #car #dishes #down

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#beautiful girls #beg #communities #homes #i

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#also #australians #country #defense #died

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ↗

— Walter Scott

#each #fair #light #pleasing #slumbers