H. A. Berlin Quotes

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

God bless America, land that I love.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.

Talent is only the starting point.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Talent is only a starting point.

You're not sick you're just in love.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

All alone by the telephone.

Lord Help the Mister that comes between Me and My Sister.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

There's no business like show business.