Al R. Young Quotes

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Draw a straight line and follow it.

The course of Nature is the art of God

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].

Success can't be forced.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I do my stuff, my "mixtapes," as you say. We just need time to capture. After that, I do not know what he thinks, but for me, it is time to get things together.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

It's so important to look relaxed.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.