#lon

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#first #five #i #longing #old

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #especially #felt #here #i

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#fail #striven #who

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. ↗

— Doc Watson

#banjo #came #first #first love #guitar

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Todd Akin

#believe #blessed #creator #defines #freedom

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#like #long #miss #opportunities #them

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. ↗

— Ira Glass

#coined #enough #into #long #radio

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life