top of page
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Time quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I believe I was ahead of my time."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense."

Explore more quotes by Maureen Forrester

Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"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."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"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."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"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."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"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."
Quote_1.png
Maureen Forrester
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
bottom of page