Burl Quotes

#1. Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.

Tom Franklin

#2. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.

Antonia Crane

#3. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

Sun Tzu

#4. Well, if you don't like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have.

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#5. Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.

Humphrey Bogart

#6. Linda Boone; Intimate Life Lessons: developing the intimacy with God you already have.

Linda Boone

#7. 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

#8. All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it ... The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

Paul Virilio

#9. Have a holly jolly Christmas!

Burl Ives

#10. If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

Baltasar Gracian

#11. 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

#12. Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.

Brad Pitt

#13. 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

#14. You can buy a Talking Barbie anywhere, but you can't even special order Listening Ken.

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#15. A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.

Mark Twain

#16. It all comes out in the wash. It's just the spin cycle that makes you crazy

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

Burl Ives

#18. The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God - the grace of God which depends not one whit upon anything that is in man, but is absolutely undeserved, resistless and sovereign. J. Gresham Machen

Justin S. Holcomb

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Burl Ives

#23. 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

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

Burl Ives

#25. Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.

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#26. Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

Samuel Goldwyn