The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.


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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING
I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING
I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING
A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING
I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM
When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL
I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B
I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B
I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B
I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE
I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN
Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B.
Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B.
My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B
Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.
We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B.
yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B.
I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B
When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON
In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B.
Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B.
You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B.
Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI