Burl Ives Quotes

#1. When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

Moby

#2. When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

Blake Griffin

#3. The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Burl Ives

#4. It is vey difficult to draw away from the face of God - it is like a warm fire, it is like dear sleep, it is like a great anthem, yet there is a stillness all about it, a stillness full of lights.

Lord Dunsany

#5. Leaders must always set the highest standard. In a summer campaign, leaders must always endure their share of the sun and the heat and, in winter, the cold and the frost. In all labors, leaders must prove tireless if they want to enjoy the trust of their followers.

Xenophon

#6. Have a holly jolly Christmas!

Burl Ives

#7. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

Burl Ives

#8. I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

Curtis Jackson

#9. You know, and I know, just how much we defy.

Coco J. Ginger

#10. How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Burl Ives

#11. When you're in love, you put a little bit of yourself in everything you cook.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#13. There comes a moment when we must choose how we're going to love someone. Some forms of love leave a sweet memory once they're gone, others leave scars. But there are forms that when stolen, destroy part of who we are - love that transforms us.

Caroline George

#14. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

Burl Ives

#16. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

Burl Ives

#17. He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

J.K. Rowling

#18. The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

William Julius Wilson

#19. I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

Burl Ives

#20. I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Burl Ives

#21. When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

Burl Ives

#22. The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

Burl Ives

#23. I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Burl Ives

#24. You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

Josh Lanyon

#25. Love wasn't meant to be rational. It was meant to be experienced and felt.

S.L. Naeole