S. Walden Quotes

Let's start and build a House that works for the people, because this is the people's House.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

There's nothing more exciting than playing live for the people. Just play it, just do it.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Finally, ” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.”“I’m no angel, ” Eleanore quietly insisted.“Yes, you are, ” said every man in the room.

I'm not looking for things to be even between us, Brooke, " Ryan said after a moment. "I'm looking for them to be right.

There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.

You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister.

People take advantage of good people. That's what I mean. So don't be a sucker.

I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible, " Laura said, laughing.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

Every fall happens in a slow fade.