Funny Louis Armstrong Famous Quotes & Sayings

We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us. — David Gianadda

Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. — Peter Beard

Now, there is no such thing as 'man' in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on. I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare I've never encountered him. — Joseph De Maistre

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor. — Toby Jones

The memories float further and further away from that which once created them. — Jostein Gaarder

Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As the sun broke through the mist a mirage appeared, which took up about half of the line of cavalry, and thenceforth for a little distance it marched, equally plain to the sight on the earth and in the sky. The future of the heroic band, whose days were even then numbered, seemed to be revealed, and already there seemed a premonition in the supernatural translation as their forms were reflected from the opaque mist of the early dawn. — Elizabeth B. Custer

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. — Mortimer J. Adler

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains. — L. Frank Baum

Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way. — Charles D. Hayes

I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me! — Louis Armstrong

Red for the blood of Christ, green for his everlasting love, blue for heaven above, and old for the King of Kings. — Nancy B. Brewer