Son Quotes - Page 75

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.