"Hanoi Rocks was our baby and we were the core and we started the band. All those years that went to waste because of that accident, it's only right that we have some kind of advantage because it's our history. The name 'Hanoi Rocks' I think is one of the very best names, if not the best name of all rock n' roll bands."

-- Michael Monroe

#Baby Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.”
“Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.”
“Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
“My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.”
“The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.”

Source : Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”
“There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.”
“The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10).”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1881). “The Servant Girl Question”
“The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”

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