Ascending Melodic Minor

Famous quotes containing the words ascending, melodic and/or minor:

    “To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Whose starward eye
    Saw chariot “swing low”? And who was he
    That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
    “Nobody knows de trouble I see”?”
    —James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

    “People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
    —Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)