Son Quotes - Page 83

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

Hope survives best at the hearth.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the apostles and imparted to her sons. For the Lord of all gave to His apostles the power of the Gospel, through whom also we have known the truth, that is, the doctrine of the Son of God: to whom also did the Lord declare: 'He who hears you, hears Me; and he who despises you, despises Me, and Him who sent Me' (Lk. 10:16).

Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.