1940-1980, British Rock Musician
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
John Lennon – [Parents and Parenting]
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon – [Twentieth Century]
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
John Lennon – [Drugs]
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
John Lennon – [Truth]
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon – [Twentieth Century]
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon – [Jesus Christ]
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon – [Love]
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
John Lennon – [Weapons]
Woman is the Nigger of the World.
John Lennon – [Women]
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
John Lennon – [Work]
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon – [Peace]
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John Lennon – [Getting Ahead]
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