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I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
— Gordon Lightfoot
What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.
— Gordon Lightfoot
It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children of any age
grow up and become peers. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.
— Gordon Lightfoot
he didn't love me at all,
— Freda Lightfoot
The Church in England is the Church of England.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I never got really good at hockey.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
— Dan Fogelberg
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
— Gordon Lightfoot
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
— Gordon Lightfoot
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
— Gordon Lightfoot
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
— Gordon Lightfoot
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.
— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
— Gordon Lightfoot
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
— Gordon Lightfoot
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
— Gordon Lightfoot
Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
— David Foster
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
— Gordon Lightfoot
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
— Gordon Lightfoot
The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.
— J.B. Lightfoot
She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
— Gordon Lightfoot
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
— Chris Pratt
The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
— Gordon Lightfoot
God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
— A.E. Housman
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
— Gordon Lightfoot
How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.
— Freda Lightfoot
We all make mistakes, but it's how we deal with the consequences that show our true worth,
— Freda Lightfoot
It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
— Gordon Lightfoot
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
— Gordon Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Let our hearts touch far horizons.Let our love know no borders,
Draw the Circles wide until,
No one stands alone. — Gordon Lightfoot
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
— Gordon Lightfoot
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
— Henry Adams
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
— Gordon Lightfoot
The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
— Gordon Lightfoot
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
— Gordon Lightfoot
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.
— Gordon Lightfoot
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
— Gordon Lightfoot
You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
— Gordon Lightfoot
