Ed Foreman Quotes

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

The hairflip is something that just can’t be taught

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

The optimum human population of earth is zero.

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.

You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.

Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.

If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.

Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.