This quote is written / told by Virgil Thomson between November 25, 1896 and September 30, 1989. He/she was a famous Composer from USA.
The author also have 13 other quotes.
"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"
"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows"