What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
AL GREENSo that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
More Al Green Quotes
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Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.
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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.
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I’d never be able to see the shore.
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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,
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I’m not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
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So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
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I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
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And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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