L. M. Boyd Quotes

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

The world is a drought when out of love.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.