#tar

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#hospitals #i #i can #joking #just

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#april #biggest #gregory #hero #him

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#man #more #nashville #proving #same

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#ever #i #imagined #life #me

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#best #called #even #goes #going

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#indigestion #love #never #often #starvation

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#cannot #children #responsible #see #sit

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#ballad #career #close #duty #fade

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry