D.W. Griffith Quotes
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
