Bob Marley Quotes

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right.

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.

Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

You have to be someone.

My feet is my only carriage.

We JAH people can make it work.

Music is the only thing that doesn't hurt when it hits you.

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me

Never let the children cry, Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why

A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food nah nuff.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

Don't gain the world and lose your soul wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Money can't buy life.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

Your life is worth much more than gold.

Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob.

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

One and all have to face reality now.

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!

Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man

tell me what you think it means.

Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Light up the darkness

Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision.