Top 36 Quotes About Dodds
#1. No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.
John Zorn
#2. My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
Wallace Shawn
#6. We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It's how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won't let us move forward.
Tucker Elliot
#7. I'm clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
Tucker Elliot
#8. It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance - teachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care, and then vice-versa.
Tucker Elliot
#9. For your own security it's imperative you blend in with the native population.
Tucker Elliot
#10. It'd be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It's really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we've already lost.
Tucker Elliot
#11. I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It's not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker Elliot
#12. I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.
Tucker Elliot
#13. We are only allowed to live
due to some colossal misunderstanding.
Jeramy Dodds
#14. We're going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we've created a standard.
DeLoss Dodds
#15. It's hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who've never lived overseas, but when you're an American living in a geographically separated region within a country like Korea, you form bonds with people who you'd never associate with stateside.
Tucker Elliot
#16. We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
Tucker Elliot
#17. It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
#18. Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends.
Tucker Elliot
#20. I have this thought, it's horrible, and it makes me sick, but it's true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they're going to name them for men and women who will die in this war.
Tucker Elliot
#21. O you
can't tell someone just how lonely he is
Jeramy Dodds
#22. There are more good people than bad people, and overall there's more that's good in the world than there is that's bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.
Tucker Elliot
#23. If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.
Tucker Elliot
#24. In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.
Tucker Elliot
#25. I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They'll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.
Tucker Elliot
#26. The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.
Tucker Elliot
#27. Military life is hard, even cruel - especially for the kids.
Tucker Elliot
#28. This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.
Tucker Elliot
#29. We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds.
Billy Dodds
#30. If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like the story your living, stop telling it.
Virginia Johnston-Dodds
#32. There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
Harold W. Dodds
#33. it may sound strange, but I think atheists are the most religious people in the world.
Colin Dodds
#34. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.
Tucker Elliot
#35. If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.
DeLoss Dodds
#36. The last two days I've been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It's late and dark, but I'm so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here.
Tucker Elliot
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