Son Quotes - Page 13

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.

Dogs keep a promise a person can't.

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Every great person educates themselves.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.