Charlie Patton Quotes

#1. Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Tim Cahill

#2. High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton. If you have a hard time making out the lyrics, you're not alone - even Son House (who, along with Howlin' Wolf, was influenced by Patton)

Tom Franklin

#3. Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

James Frey

#4. The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

Philip Hammond

#5. We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#6. Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

Bill Cosby

#7. Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

William Lyon Phelps

#8. We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.

Steven Pressfield

#9. It's always been you, Paige. I've waited my whole life for you. You're the air I breathe, my heart and soul. Without you, I'm in hell.

Rebekkah Ford

#10. Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

Tom Franklin

#11. Generous leaders have faith in others to succeed. In turn, they receive tenfold loyalty, commitment, and a positive outcome.

Farshad Asl

#12. It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

John Adams

#13. The sting and pain of my Mark was nothing compared to the pain I'm feeling now. It's a scraping deep down, a dull blade being used to dig out my heart.

RaeLynn Fry

#14. When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

Erwin McManus