B.B. King Quotes

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, But will you love me tomorrow?

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

The most important things are the hardest to say

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.