“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.” MenTeacherGrewGrew UpRosePatientIncludingPeersNurturingAdmiringCellists Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'” MenLittlesChristianMotherJesusSpeakChristBoysMorningRoseChristian InspirationalMinistersSundayHungLittle BoysPulpitSunday Morning Author:Vance Havner
“I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?” MenWishCuttingHe ManRose Author:Ella Maillart
“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.” PeopleMenWorldBelieveCertainFatherClassTalentIndustryBirthAngelRoseVanityFollySentimentsBoastApesAncestryShabby Book:The Martyrdom of Man Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.” IfsMenHeartMomentsHandsPassionPressesRoseSuitsFadesAlasInclineWooingFoliageSeize The Moment Author:William C. Bryant
“A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.” KnowsMenSummerBreathsRoseBlowGrievingAutumnWeedFall AutumnSwaying Author:John Vance Cheney