Explore Quotes by Bruce Cockburn

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Like a stone on the surface of a still river_x000D_ Driving the ripples on forever_x000D_ Redemption rips through the surface of time_x000D_ In the cry of a tiny babe.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you,_x000D_you can't see what's round the bend._x000D_Sometimes the road leads through dark places,_x000D_sometimes the darkness is your friend

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay -_x000D_ the world survives into another day,_x000D_ and I'm thinking about eternity._x000D_ Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

There's roads, and there's roads,_x000D__x000D_And they call. Can't you hear it?_x000D__x000D_Roads of the earth_x000D__x000D_And roads of the spirit_x000D__x000D__x000D_The best roads of all _x000D__x000D_Are the ones that aren't certain._x000D__x000D_One of those is where you'll find me_x000D__x000D_'Til they drop the big curtain.

When you know even for a moment_x000D__x000D_That it's your time_x000D__x000D_Then you can walk with the power_x000D__x000D_Of a thousand generations