J. P. Blake Quotes

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours / I should've listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn't have taken me so long / To know where I belong

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.