I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.


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I've been hunting since I was big enough to sit on my daddy's knee. I was raised to hunt and to hunt...
BOBBY HARPER
When we met, we just blended. We met as strangers and remained friends.
BOBBY HARPER
It would be nice to have the white boys there.
BOBBY HARPER
Hunting is about ethics and character. If you have good character you will become a good hunter.
BOBBY HARPER
People say that hunter's 'kill' game, that's not true. Murderers 'kill;' sportsman 'harvest' wildlif...
BOBBY HARPER
When you keep a child hunting and fishing, you keep them out of the courts. You keep them out of tro...
BOBBY HARPER
Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find w...
BOBBY HARPER
Cheney should have made sure of his target before he pulled the trigger. He wasn't being careful.
BOBBY HARPER
I advise people to wear blaze orange hunting clothing, not orange camouflage. Blaze orange will save...
BOBBY HARPER
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the ba...
STEPHEN HARPER
We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young m...
HILL HARPER
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a...
ROY HARPER
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thi...
HILL HARPER
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE
I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.
BRYCE HARPER
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break...
HILL HARPER
Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There are a number of Hebrew words about salv...
MICHAEL HARPER
Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.
HILL HARPER
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o-clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes...
HARPER LEE
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...
HARPER LEE
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has e...
STEPHEN HARPER
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people w...
STEPHEN HARPER
The prime minister told the House in response that he had 'met the families and had long discussions...
STEPHEN HARPER
It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.
RICK HARPER
To use that photo to imply that Mr. Duceppe and I share some sort of agenda other than obviously opp...
STEPHEN HARPER
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, &...
HILL HARPER
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor...
STEPHEN HARPER
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to s...
STEPHEN HARPER
I always say, it doesn't matter how busy I am and how early in the morning it is. The one thing I ca...
STEPHEN HARPER