Fred Craddock Quotes

#1. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Fred B. Craddock

#2. Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual

Jean Genet

#3. I don't actually breakdance.

James Webb

#4. The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Fred B. Craddock

#5. The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.

Fred B. Craddock

#6. Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

Pablo Schreiber

#7. I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

Mario Testino

#8. She'd taken one look at him the first time they'd met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.

Katie Reus

#9. No one likes my books except the public.

Mickey Spillane

#10. I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

Bertrand Russell

#11. A family needs a father to anchor it.

L. Tom Perry

#12. don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

Fred B. Craddock

#13. I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Fred B. Craddock

#15. When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

Morgan Freeman

#16. I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Anthony Doerr

#17. Courage is not measured by
Marching bands and banners in the wind.
If you have not walked
The bloody lines and seen the faces,
You have no right to describe it so.
We die here to keep you safe at home,
And what we suffer
Pray you may never know.

Charles Todd

#18. I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Gloria Whelan

#19. Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

Fred B. Craddock

#20. I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

Fred B. Craddock

#21. Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.

Fred B. Craddock

#22. Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

Elvis Presley