C.C. Franklin Quotes

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

Losing is inevitable, make sure you have the tools in your toolbox to deal with it.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

That which hurts, also instructs.

I Love photographing. It’s that simple.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

You Look so much better When You Smile - so smile.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.