My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.


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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON
The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA
We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho...
HENRY B. EYRING
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible econo...
LESTER B. PEARSON
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WHITE
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. YEHOSHUA
Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. JOSHUA
After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if...
T. B. JOSHUA
When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the...
T. B. JOSHUA
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as ...
T. B. JOSHUA
There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. JOSHUA
I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. JOSHUA
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. JOSHUA
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...
T. B. JOSHUA
I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ...
T. B. JOSHUA
Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which con...
T. B. JOSHUA
That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about....
T. B. JOSHUA
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...
T. B. JOSHUA
The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave th...
T. B. JOSHUA
Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or...
T. B. JOSHUA
What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossin...
T. B. JOSHUA
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roo...
T. B. JOSHUA
What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
T. B. JOSHUA
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity w...
T. B. JOSHUA
There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. B...
T. B. JOSHUA
Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. JOSHUA
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. JOSHUA
Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the furt...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a r...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, the...
IDA B. WELLS
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
IDA B. WELLS
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
IDA B. WELLS
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
IDA B. WELLS
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is ...
HAROLD B. LEE
The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments o...
HAROLD B. LEE
My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonem...
HAROLD B. LEE
There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, bu...
J. B. PRITZKER
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. PRITZKER
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nat...
J. B. PRITZKER
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. PRITZKER
When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. PRITZKER
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER
I am a lifelong Democrat.
J. B. PRITZKER