Maureen Forrester Quotations

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

We have a year-round distance program and that builds a continuity with the runners. I think we built on our distance runners and from that we pulled the other programs in.

He was definitely one of the better pick-ups we have had in a while. He gave us not just size, but he gave us great consistency through the season.

Here I was trying to claw my way back and he hits that shot on 13 and sinks that putt on 14. That really deflated me. It took some wind out of my sails.

It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job.

Our kids played hard and we're proud of that. It's just tough to spot a good team a 25-point lead.

We were able to extend our defense out on them a bit and did a better job with our inside game.

When you're good and you're winning, it attracts people to come out for track.

We've mastered the art of ugliness. That's what happens when you play hard and gritty like this team does.

With a future emphasis on manufacturing technology, this structure may provide an important, low-cost and efficient means that will replace incandescent lighting in many different applications.

The players here are all super-high caliber so it means a lot. I've kind of seen what my opponents were willing to give me and adjusted at the table.

Everybody uses energy, either to heat their homes or to drive their cars. So, when the price of energy falls, it's like the whole country gets a bonus or a tax cut.

People don't have confidence in their senior elected officials. These are the ones we entrust with the public's business, (with) votes and actions that will be done for the sole benefit of the citizens of New Jersey. It's time for a change. This is not a change.

This pilot is a win-win for everyone - all drivers can reduce their insurance costs simply by participating and, if they drive less over time, can save even more. We also have the opportunity to gather mileage data, which will help us better understand the correlation between how much a person drives and how likely they are to get into an accident. We're always looking for ways to more accurately price auto insurance and this program is just another way to achieve this goal.

The Fed's not worried about inflation, nor should they be.

I'm happy to see her coming back, ... She's what the whole show should be about, giving people a chance and watching what happens when young people explore their talent and try to follow their dream.

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