Ronnie Van Zant Quotes

#1. If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

Ronnie Van Zant

#2. There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Ronnie Van Zant

#3. Yeah?" Stradlater said. That really interested him. About the booze hound running around the house naked, with Jane around. Stradlater was a very sexy bastard.
"She had a lousy childhood. I'm not kidding."
That didn't interest Stradlater, though. Only very sexy stuff interested him.

J.D. Salinger

#4. The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Dallas Willard

#5. What song is it you want to hear?

Ronnie Van Zant

#6. To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Confucius

#7. I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.

Ronnie Van Zant

#8. Be a simple kind of man.

Ronnie Van Zant

#9. People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

Ruth Rendell

#10. A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Thomas Gold Appleton

#11. Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

#12. If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Ronnie Van Zant

#13. I just want to feel needed by somebody who deserves whatever I got to offer.

Cara McKenna

#14. I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

Ronnie Van Zant