Tom Paxton Quotes

#1. In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

Tom Paxton

#2. Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.

E. Lockhart

#3. The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.

George Dardess

#4. There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.

Kendall Jenner

#5. Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Tom Paxton

#6. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.

James Joyce

#7. In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.

Tom Paxton

#8. This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.

Tom Paxton

#10. The two most important days if your life are the day you are born ... and the day you find out why having multiple screens for your computer is so awesome because now reports and grants are like a billion times easier!

Mark Twain

#11. I want you to remember how your heart reacts every time I kiss you."
I want you to remember my hands, and how they can't stop touching you."
"And I need you to remember that anyone can make love. But I'm the only one who deserves to make love to you.

Colleen Hoover

#12. A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

Tom Paxton

#13. I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

Ru Freeman

#14. Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

Tom Paxton

#15. As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.

Tom Paxton

#16. When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#17. Sin is a fact of life. It is the way we deal with it that changes ours.

Rachel Jankovic

#18. Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.

Tom Paxton

#19. Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when -
listen to him Now!

Tom Paxton

#20. All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

Sybille Bedford

#21. I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.

Neil Gaiman

#22. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

Joel Osteen

#24. When Jesus describes Judgment, the famous separation of the sheep from the goats, he does not mention religious affiliation or sexual orientation or family values. He says, "I was hungry, and ye fed me not" (Matthew 25:42).

Marilynne Robinson