When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
JOHNNY CASHA rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
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Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
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My arms are too short to box with God.
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I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
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I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
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Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
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A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
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When you sing, you pray twice.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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