Son Quotes - Page 38

Success has many fathers, failure many sons.

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.

Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.

Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.