Martin Denny quotes

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.
-- Martin Denny

#Parent #Age #Months

The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
-- Martin Denny

#Beach #Good Friend #Night

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!