Steve Earle Quotes

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

Steve Earle

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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Family
  • Think
  • Charity

• More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Female

• Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

  

  Owen Glendower
  • May
  • You
  • Lord

• I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Always
  • Training
  • Charity

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Charity

• When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • World
  • Prayer

• I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Poverty
  • Charity

• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  

  Roy Orbison
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Eyes

• I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • People
  • Money
  • Responsibility

• A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

  

  Maria Monk
  • School
  • Charity

• When I was very young, my brother and I, we used to go into charity shops to buy suits. The thing about clothes is that people judge you by what you wear, unfortunately. So when we wore suits, people gave us respect - we were very young, and it made them think we were older.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Respect
  • Brother

• I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Time
  • Children
  • Effort

• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Up
  • Children
  • Society

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Prayer
  • Charity
  • Lord