My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Related topics: Family Relationship
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below.
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
---------
Thank you for visiting: My children have made me more aggressive about the world by Bono.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Quotes and Sayings.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright ©. You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy, our copyright policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and the list of all our websites.