Quote

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

Melissa Etheridge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Leavenworth
Kansas
Melissa Lou Etheridge
Never
Strong
Gay
Love
Tell
Refuse
Life
Mother
Taught
Hands
Full
Remember
Hand
Stops
Must
Wonder
Mothers
Children
Wrong
Quick
Much
Fear
Legacy

More quotes by Melissa Etheridge

Image
I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight
Melissa Etheridge
Image
When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
No one to hear, you might as well scream.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
Melissa Etheridge
Image
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
Melissa Etheridge