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It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry — Merle Shain

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all. — Merle Haggard

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves. — Merle Shain

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard

You have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them. — Merle Shain

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris Dement

Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. — Ellen G. White

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something. — Merle Haggard

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. — Merle Miller

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done. — Lewis Grizzard

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard

The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival. — Merle Hoffman

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor. — Merle Shain

I kiss her and the whole universe slots into place. Music plays in my head. Music so beautiful, I think I'm listening to the stars singing. — Claire Merle

Daryl Dixon: [about Merle] Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer, he'd crap out nails. — The Walking Dead

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture. — Merle Woo

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood ... and I've followed it ever since. — Laura Bell Bundy

It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison. — Claire Merle

The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command. — Merle Haggard

If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke. — Merle Haggard

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available ... in America right now. — Merle Haggard

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself. — Merle Shain

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down. — Merle Haggard

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be. — Merle Haggard

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all ... — Merle Shain

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. — Merle Shain

Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck. — Michael McDowell

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. — Merle Haggard

How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are? — Claire Merle

Some men are more perfect than others. — Merle Shain

We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine. — Merle Haggard

Miguel: Merle? What kind of hick name is that? I wouldn't name my dog Merle. — The Walking Dead

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own. — Merle Haggard

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some. — Merle Haggard

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in. — Merle Shain

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money. — Merle Haggard

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? — Merle Shain

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored. — Merle Shain

A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being. — Merle Fossum

Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport. — Merle Shain

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft. — Merle Dandridge

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. — Merle Haggard

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me — Merle Shain

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children. — Merle Haggard

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it. — Merle Miller

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — Merle Shain

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free. — Merle Haggard

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. — Merle Shain

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis. — Alvin Lee

Belief in a higher power was a form of psychosis. — Claire Merle

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it. — Merle Haggard

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be. — Merle Shain

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get. — Merle Shain

I've got two families. — Merle Haggard

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy. — Merle Travis

My father and brothers were coal miners. — Merle Travis

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. — Trisha Yearwood

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems. — Merle Haggard

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones. — Merle Miller

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it. — Merle Haggard

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still. — Merle Shain

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13. — Merle Haggard

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for. — Merle Dandridge

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love. — Merle Shain

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth. — Merle Shain

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained. — Merle Shain

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? — Merle Haggard

A house without love ain't a home. — Merle Haggard

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty. — Merle Haggard

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it. — Merle Haggard

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell. — Merle Haggard

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest. — Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music. — Merle Haggard

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. — Merle Travis

God accomplishes his designs unknown even to those whom he employs as his instruments. — Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything. — Merle Haggard

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. — Merle Haggard

Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning. — Merle Haggard

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. — Warren Zevon

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce. — Merle Haggard

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would. — Merle Haggard

It takes great generosity to accept generosity. — Merle Shain

I didn't refuse often enough. — Henry James

Timber and relationships are fragile. All it takes is one spark to destroy either of them. — Steven Merle Scott

Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
don't get
who don't get
don't care — Merle Hodge

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself. — Merle Shain

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song. — Merle Haggard

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind. — Merle Haggard

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery. — Merle Haggard

I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard. — Tyler Farr

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire. — Merle Shain

Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I — Rachel Cohn

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. — David Allan Coe

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good. — Merle Haggard

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you. — Merle Shain

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast. — Merle Haggard

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried. — Merle Haggard

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. — Merle Travis

I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic — Merle Haggard

There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink. — Merle Haggard