Author Profile
Jessye Norman
1945 • American • Musician
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Collected Meditations
Showing 45 quotesIt takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.— Jessye Norman
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.— Jessye Norman
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.— Jessye Norman