Quotes About Stephen Foster

#1. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

#2. Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

Stephen Covey

#3. Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

Lynn A. Robinson

#4. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephen Covey

#5. We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.

Joseph Adam Ereli

#6. Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

Stephen Foster

#8. And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter ... it fell softly ... softly ... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.

Antonia Michaelis

#9. Generosity has such power because it is characterized by the inner quality of letting go or relinquishing.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

Harold Bloom

#11. After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.

Patrick Modiano

#12. Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

Stephen Foster

#13. I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.

Stephen Foster

#14. Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it.

H.G. Mewis

#15. Foster's face breaks into a grin.

Stephen King

#16. Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

Ellen J. Barrier

#17. Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."
"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."
"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

Lee Goldberg

#18. Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer

#19. Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

Stephen Foster

#20. Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be done by me...

Deyth Banger

#21. You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Ellis Peters