Maureen Forrester Quotes

#1. The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram is not anyone's private property. It is the means to provide peace and quietude for the entire world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#2. I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

Maureen Forrester

#3. One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Oscar De La Renta

#4. I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

#5. I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

Maureen Forrester

#6. I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Maureen Forrester

#7. After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Maureen Forrester

#8. By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Maureen Forrester

#9. Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Henry A. Kissinger

#10. Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Maureen Forrester

#11. You look amazing."
"Thank you. You look pretty good." Understatement.
"Oh this old thing? Shucks," he said.
"Dork."
"Goddess.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#12. I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

Maureen Forrester

#13. God' is an excuse to justify hate.

Anonymous

#14. We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

Tenth Avenue North

#15. Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Maureen Forrester

#16. I've set the intention that all who ask to receive attunements from me receive them perfectly and instantly the moment they call them in regardless if the attunement is prepared in the past, present or future and regardless of who the recipient is.

Chris Comish

#17. If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Maureen Forrester

#18. King Billy nectaring on the harbinger.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Maureen Forrester

#20. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

Maureen Forrester

#21. Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Maureen Forrester

#22. Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose.
I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you.
I just wanna stay right here, Until never dawns

Corinne Bailey Rae

#23. Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Maureen Forrester

#24. All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Vivian Amis

#25. My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

#26. That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

Maureen Forrester

#27. I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Maureen Forrester

#28. When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

Maureen Forrester

#29. I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

Maureen Forrester

#30. Life never gives you what you deserve but what you decided.

Tara Fela-Durotoye

#31. What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

Matt Damon

#32. My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Maureen Forrester

#33. That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

Charlie Siem

#34. Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

William Morris Hunt