Son Quotes - Page 21

Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

If through faith you have placed your eternal destiny in the loving hands of Jesus Christ, you can be sure that God is at work, shaping the events and circumstances of your life into a beautiful mosaic that will reveal His Son to the men and women around you. His hand is on you, as it has been since before you were born.

You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

I`m not a morning person.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

Second by second you lose the opportunity to become the person you want to be. Take charge of your life.

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.