Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

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I suppose I took comfort in the illusion that I could go back. But I'd been around long enough to know history is sealed and unchangeable. You can move on, with a heart stronger in the places it's been broken, create new love. You can hammer pain and trauma into a righteous sword and use it in defense of life, love, human grace and God's blessings. But nobody gets a do-over. Nobody gets to go back and there's only one road out. Ahead, into the dark.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

On a good day this is how we live. This is love. This is what life is. The possibility of finding root, safety and nurturing in a new season.

One day we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny

It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win.

We are a nation of immigrants and no one knows who's coming across our borders today, whose story might add a significant page to our American story. Here in the early years of our new century, as at the turn of the last, we are once again at war with our "new Americans." As in the last, people will come, will suffer hardship and prejudice, will do battle with the most reactionary forces and hardest hearts of their adopted home and will prove resilient and victorious. I

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Children bring with them grace, patience, transcendence, second chances, rebirth and a reawakening of the love that's in your heart and present in your home. They are God giving you another shot. My

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The ambiguities, the contradictions, the complexities of your choices are always with you in your writing as they are in your life. You learn to live with them. You trust your need to have a dialogue about what you deem important.

There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.

Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.

No, you can't tell people anything, you've got to show 'em.

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.

Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

The exit in a blaze of glory is bullshit.

Someone made the mistake of telling me the safest place in a lightning storm was in a car because of the grounding of the rubber tires. After that, at the first sound of thunder, I caterwauled until my parents would take me in the car until the storm subsided. I then proceeded to write about cars for the rest of my life.

Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is rain

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.