Gordon Lightfoot famous quotes

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Doe #Unanswered Questions #God Love

The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Believe #Cities #Giants

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Sadness #Rainy Day #People

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Romantic #Dream #Lonely

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

#Art #Media #Mind

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Daughter #Mother #Son

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Love #Magic #Bones

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Lying #Dating #Dresses

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Wise #Gun #Fire

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Faces #Common #Calm

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Dust #Adages

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Dream #Queens #Sailor

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Relationship #Mistake #Names

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Work #Tools #Trade

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Dream #Sadness #Mean

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Pain #Sadness #Feel Better

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Relationship #Feelings #Gone

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Philosophy #Finding Yourself #Wealth

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Romantic #Beautiful #Lucky

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Romantic #Flower

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

#Guy #Bird #Study

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Vibes #Surroundings

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

#Education #Way #Life Is

SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Together #Musician #Energy

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Revenge #Fire #Retribution

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Mistake #Advice #Getting Lost

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Crowns #Thorns #Crown Of Thorns

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Thinking #Fool #Virtue

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Fall #Doors #House

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Faces #Tomorrow #Adages

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

#Nuts #World #Littles

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Friendship #Giving #Wave

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Friendship #Eye #Sea

When love is true there is no truer occupation.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Love Is #Occupation #Adages