Son Quotes - Page 20

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

A song can be a song where somebody thinks you're crazy. A song that gets released has got to be something that everyone can relate to. Most of the songs that I keep are un-relateable for most people - some of the music I make only for myself and the homies.

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

I guess one person can make a difference.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.