Top 100 Lightfoot Quotes
#1. People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
Chris Pratt
#2. For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
Henry Adams
#3. On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.
Sharon Sant
#4. I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.
John Prine
#5. Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.
Kris Kristofferson
#6. While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
Dan Hill
#7. I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg
#8. With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
A.E. Housman
#9. I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.
Ronnie Hawkins
#10. What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.
Gordon Lightfoot
#11. Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
David Foster
#12. One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people to be active or not" Lightfoot says. "You can have a predisposition to be a couch potato
David Epstein
#13. Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.
Ron Sexsmith
#14. With Rue My Heart Is Laden
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
A.E. Housman
#15. I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
Gordon Lightfoot
#16. The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.
J.B. Lightfoot
#17. If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
Gordon Lightfoot
#18. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#19. I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
Gordon Lightfoot
#20. This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#21. I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
Gordon Lightfoot
#22. I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
#23. Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Gordon Lightfoot
#24. 'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.
Gordon Lightfoot
#25. I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.
Gordon Lightfoot
#26. You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
Gordon Lightfoot
#28. Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#29. Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
Gordon Lightfoot
#30. There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#31. Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.
Gordon Lightfoot
#32. Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#33. I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.
Gordon Lightfoot
#34. The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
Gordon Lightfoot
#35. The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the fact that it is rarely articulated, but usually remains smoldering and silent.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#36. We all make mistakes, but it's how we deal with the consequences that show our true worth,
Freda Lightfoot
#38. To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#40. How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.
Freda Lightfoot
#41. So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#43. Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
Gordon Lightfoot
#44. All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
#45. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#46. Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
Gordon Lightfoot
#47. I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
#49. There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase "I'll give it five!" The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
Gordon Lightfoot
#50. I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
Gordon Lightfoot
#53. I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#54. So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#55. I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.
Gordon Lightfoot
#56. It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
Gordon Lightfoot
#57. SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.
Gordon Lightfoot
#59. I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.
Gordon Lightfoot
#63. Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
Gordon Lightfoot
#64. But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#65. Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
Gordon Lightfoot
#66. There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#68. Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#69. The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.
Gordon Lightfoot
#72. I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
Gordon Lightfoot
#73. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Gordon Lightfoot
#74. The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#75. Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#76. Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#77. If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
Gordon Lightfoot
#78. I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
Gordon Lightfoot
#79. She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
Gordon Lightfoot
#80. The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#81. I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
Gordon Lightfoot
#82. Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.
Gordon Lightfoot
#83. Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
Gordon Lightfoot
#84. Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
Gordon Lightfoot
#85. God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#86. You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
Gordon Lightfoot
#87. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
Gordon Lightfoot
#88. I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
Gordon Lightfoot
#89. But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#92. Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In
Neil R. Lightfoot
#93. Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#94. My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.
Gordon Lightfoot
#95. It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#96. I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
#98. Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon Lightfoot
#99. I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
Gordon Lightfoot
#100. The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
Gordon Lightfoot
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