Kim Edwards's Quotes

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.