Tom Petty Quotes

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

Children are wonderful!

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?