G.A. Aiken Quotes

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

I auditioned just for fun.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

Bad laws make bad customs.

I hang out with the nerdy people they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

I did get a degree in special education.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!

Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.

I really love live performing!

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

I never knew that people made a club for me!

When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

I love you, what star do you live on?

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?