Son Quotes - Page 60

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

Music is poetry with personality.

We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I'm the most carefree, happy person you'll meet.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

My brother was in high school and he had a garage band going, but no one would sing. They were covering a Hatebreed song at the time and I knew the words for it. My brother knew I knew the words, so he came inside the house and he's like 'Hey Mitch, come out here and sing'. I did it and after that I started a band with my older brother. That's how I got started.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.