Quotes of Unsung - somelinesforyou

“ The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ”

- Tagore

“ One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. ”

- Ferdinand Mount

“ The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ”

- Amelia Earhart

“ God gave man the challenge of raw materials — not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. ”

- Unknown

“ In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away "unwept, unhonored, and unsung," no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him… ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. ”

- Andrew Carnegie
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