Stephen Foster Famous Quotes & Sayings
14 Stephen Foster Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it?— Stephen Foster
How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?
The answer lies in the return.
You will not come back to the 'same old thing.
What you return to has changed because you have changed.
Your perceptions will be altered.
You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind.
The river has been flowing while you were gone.
Now it does not look like the same river.
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
Foster's face breaks into a grin.— Stephen King
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
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
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.— Stephen Covey
Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.— Harold Bloom
In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.— David Foster Wallace
The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me.— Fannie Flagg
I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:— Caroline Kepnes
"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar.
"Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob.
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade.
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already.
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.— Stephen Foster
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
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.— Stephen Covey
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,— Stephen Foster
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.
