Pastoral Resources

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.