J.D. Young Quotes

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Live Fast, Love Hard, DieYoung (And Leave A Beautiful Memory).

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

If you love the truth, you can remember it.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

The five members with the same dream have fulfilled our dream together

We went west willingly--because we had to.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Pause and remember - You deserve peace! So, don't feel bad for one moment about walking away from people, jobs, and situations that keep you from having peace of mind.

Pause and remember - If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.