Peter Yarrow Quotes

#1. People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Peter Yarrow

#2. The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'

Peter Yarrow

#3. When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

Doug Stanhope

#4. When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.

Peter Yarrow

#5. It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Maya Angelou

#6. Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Henry Van Dyke

#7. To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Peter Yarrow

#8. Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

Sacha Guitry

#9. What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

Fred Alan Wolf

#10. A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

Peter Yarrow

#11. I feel like I need to sing again.

Peter Yarrow

#12. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

Peter Yarrow

#13. (If you've been puzzled by the name !Kung Bushman, the exclamation mark is not an expression of premature astonishment; it's just how linguists denote a click.)

Jared Diamond

#14. The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

Peter Yarrow

#15. We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter Yarrow

#16. So, could you hack your microbiome to make yourself healthier, happier, and smarter too?

Anonymous

#17. The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler.

Peter Yarrow

#18. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Peter Yarrow

#19. I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.

Samuel Alito

#20. There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

Peter Yarrow

#21. I chose me, and it might not be perfect, it might not be a dream or fairytale, but my good days outweigh the bad. That's all we can hope for in life, isn't it?

J.J. McAvoy

#22. I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

Criss Angel

#23. * We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.

Peter Yarrow

#24. The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

Peter Yarrow

#25. I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Clive Owen

#26. Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

Peter Yarrow

#27. People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

Peter Yarrow

#28. It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.

Dale Carnegie

#29. Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.

Shirley Hazzard

#30. Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Peter Yarrow