Son Quotes - Page 95

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.