Murphey Quotes & Sayings

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him? — Sherwood Anderson

You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea. — Ed Sheeran

While we took the children off to Disneyland. A visit to this magical kingdom should be a compulsory part of being an American---who else on earth would put so much ingenuity into simply having fun? The rides were fabulous: a real life pirate ship with real life pirates; a roller coaster that tppk you inside the Matterhorn (that was my favourite); and the Haunted House, with its flickering lights and a moving floor. By the end of the day, our feet were aching and our voices were hoarse, but it was well worth it. We all had a tremendous time ! — Sallyann Murphey

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him. — Sallyann Murphey

If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children) — Jim Rogers

I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out. — Tamara Tunie

There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched, but not consumed by it. — J.L. Murphey

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. — William Shakespeare

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work. — Janeane Garofalo

What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore? — Michael Martin Murphey

If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within — Cecil Murphey

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration
through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not. — Cecil Murphey

It happened on a Valentine night.
Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary.
It was a night of mixed feelings and inner conflict. In her flesh she felt walking on liquid gold; but in her mind, heart and soul she could not help but hate herself for partaking of this "forbidden fruit" of pleasure. Not long was the thrill gone that her soul went sinking in the quick sands of condemnation, "did you have to do it? — Moffat Machingura

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. — Nick Webb

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. — Anna Howard Shaw

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves. — J.K. Rowling

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about. — Cecil Murphey

I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds. — Michael Martin Murphey

Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy. — Cecil Murphey

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust

If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for? — Michael Martin Murphey

Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer. — Michael Martin Murphey

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film. — Joely Richardson

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie. — Alice Childress

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and comes from the ranchers and farmers. — Michael Martin Murphey

I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water ... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time. — Michael Martin Murphey

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back. — Linda Howard

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it. — Cecil Murphey

You can't have it both ways, Jess. There's are sure thing and then there's happiness--- but you gotta take the risk. — Sallyann Murphey

Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls ... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased. — John Bunyan