FastSaying

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.


Gordon B. Hinckley

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation ...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Self acceptance gives you a solid foundation upon which to build yourself into who you want to becom...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business fou...
HENRY KRAVIS You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy buildi...
R. C. SAMSEL To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ...
MARILYN MONROE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting...
J. C. WATTS You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power...
DONALD TRUMP You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is ...
ROY YAMAGUCHI To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the ...
MARILYN MONROE It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on buildin...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be compet...
BOB MCNAIR My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole ...
MARILYN MONROE Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like comin...
LINWOOD BARCLAY To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundatio...
TOM SEAVER Ethics is everything, ... If you don't have a strong moral standing, if you don't have an ethical fo...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart a...
SACHIN TENDULKAR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long...
JEFF BEZOS If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer ...
BARRY MARSHALL We had a lot of positives out there. It's a solid foundation to build on.
CULLEN JENKINS Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ...
MEL GIBSON On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t...
RICKIE FOWLER You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided the...
JACK NICKLAUS It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp...
STEVE JOBS You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD A building that lacks solid foundation is doomed for collapse
ETC WANYANWU There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
SADE ADU You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good s...
ELI BROAD You guys have a great set of coaches here, and the foundation has been started. Berkeley may not hav...
DAVID SMITH I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don'...
AL ROKER While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
AMBROSE BIERCE If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. Y...
ALYSSA MILANO If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie,...
MONICA BELLUCCI Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you&#...
RICHARD LAMM If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourse...
YAO MING If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able ...
ASTRO TELLER It was built on the opinions of experts. Experts who can be wrong; experts who can be manipulated; a...
STACY ULIANA Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
PHILIP JOHNSON we live in a sports crazed world and kids are focused on being all-state and all-pro and playing pro...
BRIAN HANSEN If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have ...
KLAY THOMPSON A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to h...
DENNIS QUAID The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are ...
RICK PERRY It is important to build core and right values on a solid foundation so no one can influence anythin...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
PAT TOOMEY You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
ROBIN WRIGHT People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and o...
MILA KUNIS Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing....
MAE WHITMAN I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research fo...
KATHY GIUSTI Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to b...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
LILLY SINGH Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ ...
J.K. ROWLING You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care abou...
GEORGE LOIS You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented...
T.F. HODGE We have nothing to go back to. I mean you know our foundation is gone. Now it's time to build anothe...
DOMINICK BALLARD You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
CASEY STENGEL Give the world a product they love or a service that solves a problem and you have the foundation fo...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace...
ANNE FRANK If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too...
ZIG ZIGLAR I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without th...
DR. DRE I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of informa...
GAVIN NEWSOM If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
DALLAS WILLARD You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a footba...
COLIN KAEPERNICK We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming,...
MARY KAY ASH Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a buil...
PHILIP JOHNSON A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o...
CLIFFORD STOLL When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you ha...
RACHEL BLOOM The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have t...
JACK BLACK Halt the casting of a stone that would prove better served in building a solid foundation.
SCOTTIE SOMERS If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting s...
FRANK BLACK Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.
MARTY RUBIN Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a communit...
NICK KROLL If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It...
ANDREW MASON If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ...
TONY KUSHNER Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same t...
SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO

More Gordon B. Hinckley

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marr...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he wi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and com...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Try a little harder to be a little better.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of governme...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledge...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that w...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of m...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful wa...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyon...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams bec...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such a...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you ar...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a va...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his r...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and n...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom o...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith lea...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincer...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that'...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marria...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of conte...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all arou...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot affo...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY So much of the civil strife and conflict in our society could be ameliorated by a small touch of mer...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forw...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to i...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not fou...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in he...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other exper...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must hav...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I could wish nothing better for each of you, my dear young friends, than love---the companionship of...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in tho...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am totally in the hands of the Lord.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the s...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the tel...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the worl...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
GORDON B. HINCKLEY In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines hims...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realiz...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and i...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of lov...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The world is starved for spiritual food.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope y...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
GORDON B. HINKLEY Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
GORDON B. HINKLEY Your faith will perform miracles especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
GORDON B. HINKLEY They're young kids who showed a lot. They should be very good next year.
BOB HINCKLEY There was a lot of disappointment, especially for our seniors. It doesn't really hit you until you k...
BOB HINCKLEY He's been playing his best hockey.
BOB HINCKLEY We played well. The final score would have been 4-3, but we pulled our goalie and they scored to mak...
BOB HINCKLEY One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY We're very much against putting businesses in residential districts, and we're against spot zoning.
BILL HINCKLEY We value our employees. This was not a decision that we made easily.
BILL HINCKLEY I started at the bottom. And that's when Larry Townsend was making history. I was working downstairs...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
JIM HINCKLEY The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the childr...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, b...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY Forget yourself and go to work.
BRYANT S. HINCKLEY The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very color...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING