Lisa Patton > Quotes

“My people always tol' me, 'You can stay in Hell a little while, long as you know you're gettin' out.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter

“Life has thrown you a curveball, baby. But it don't mean you need to throw all you know out the winda' neither. The Lawd is gonna give you another chance at love but you must be smart about it.”
― Lisa Patton, Yankee Doodle Dixie

“taken the time to study the surroundings.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter: A Novel

“Some people go their whole lives with their eyes closed. They live in darkness and never see light. They never see the error of their ways.”
― Lisa Patton, Rush

“Forgiveness is for you, so you can have peace.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. It’s the place where healing starts.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Today’s music is a reflection of what’s going on in our country. Society is changing. You need to be a part of the resistance. Ron’s life depends on it.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Nobody ever told me you can't bury somebody up North in the wintertime.”
― Lisa Patton, Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter

“Music is the golden thread of commonality that joins us all. It’s our universal language”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“It’s a great irony. We creative people tend to be highly sensitive. Yet we are drawn to the jobs that dish out the most criticism. Nowadays anyone can sit behind a computer screen wearing a judgment hat and place a snarky review on a record”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Leon pressed his elbow into mine. “She wanted your nectar. Proves you’re sweet.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“I know exactly what that’s like”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Beauty is not about having a perfect face. It’s about the way you love others and how you make them feel.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“It’s a great irony. We creative people tend to be highly sensitive. Yet we are drawn to the jobs that dish out the most criticism.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Did you have any idea people would be walking around here without their clothes on?” was all I said”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“They’re our festival security. I saw it on the news. Instead of the police force”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Livy Foster”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Sure”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“filled with the same spirit of love. And of peace. And of hope.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Modesty would have no boundaries at Woodstock. Not when girls were stripping off their tops and couples were having sex in the bushes. It was the most mind-blowing thing I could imagine.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“You can’t force someone into wanting to know the good things in your life. They either do or they don’t.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“But like I said”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“I said ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ is about LSD.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Our “epic escapade,” as we had dubbed it, was a nineteen-hour car ride, eleven hundred miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Bethel, New York. Originally the festival was to be held in Wallkill, New York, but they moved it at the last minute. Thank God Livy had heard the news. Otherwise we would have driven another hour.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“A girl who”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Nick’s deep-set blue eyes caught mine. I shuffled back a step before the air left my lungs. Nick was my brother.”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Free love is beautiful”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“Like atoms and molecules”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“arriving at Yasgur’s dairy farm. Agog with excitement”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky

“He said God loves us unconditionally”
― Lisa Patton, Kissing the Sky