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1 " My arms are too short to box with God. "
― Johnny Cash
2 " I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. "
3 " Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. "
4 " Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. "
5 " There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. "
― Johnny Cash , Cash
6 " You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. "
7 " You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. "
8 " You can choose love or hate…I choose love. "
9 " I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. "
― Johnny Cash , The Very Best of Johnny Cash
10 " Six foot six he stood on the groundHe weighed two hundred and thirty-five poundsBut I saw that giant of a man brought downTo his knees by love "
11 " The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together. "
12 " You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. "
13 " Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here. "
― Johnny Cash , Johnny Cash Quotes
14 " Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt. "
15 " Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white "
16 " All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. "
17 " There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at. "
18 " There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her. "
19 " Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need "
20 " it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people "
