Son Quotes - Page 66

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.