Top 64 Rod Mckuen Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rod Mckuen

#1. Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something
about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love,

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#2. We will all wake up semi-angels,
If we wake at all.

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#3. Thank you for the sun you brought this morning
even though the sky was full of clouds.

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#4. I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

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#5. Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

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#6. The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

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#7. People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

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#8. It happens just because we need
to want and to be wanted too,
when love is here or gone
to lie down in the darkness
and listen to the warm.

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#9. I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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#10. Always I glance both ways.
Why chance missing love
wherever she or he may lurk?

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#11. For every star that falls to earth a new one glows.
For every dream that fades away a new one grows.
When things are not what they would seem
you must keep following your dream.

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#12. Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

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#13. Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

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#14. Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

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#15. The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

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#16. May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.

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#17. I had a pet raccoon that took my tooth brush once,
But only to another room.

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#18. I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

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#19. and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

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#20. Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

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#21. You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

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#22. Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

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#23. This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

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#24. We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

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#25. I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

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#26. The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

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#27. Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

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#28. Extending your hand is extending yourself.

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#29. Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter.

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#30. I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

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#31. I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and sail the wide sea of your thighs.

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#32. I was rich in those days, for a week I had everything. I wish I'd known you then.

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#33. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

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#34. Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

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#35. I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope.

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#36. I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.
You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.

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#37. Theres no misery in not being loved,
only in not loving

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#38. Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met?

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#39. To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

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#40. I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same.

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#41. It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

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#42. I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

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#43. There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

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#44. Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

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#45. For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

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#46. I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

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#47. I have fallen in love with the world
And I am aware that I have chosen
the most dangerous lover of them all.

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#48. A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

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#49. No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

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#50. It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.

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#51. We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

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