Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

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• All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
• You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
• I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
• 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 giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto…
• If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
• Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.
• Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
• Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
• Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
• Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
• Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
• I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
• She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
• The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
• I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
• If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
• 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…
• Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
• Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

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