Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day. Sting More Quotes by Sting More Quotes From Sting They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. Sting machines waste reality Melancholy is no bad thing. Sting bad-things melancholy I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways. Sting honesty hands way Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll. Sting rock-n-roll rocks growing-up The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. Sting taxation butterfly trying Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. Sting ocean tree philosophy What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too. Sting relation might children I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years. Sting taught two years Hell is full of high court judges. Sting court-judges politics judging Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories. Sting community honor stories It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. Sting smile ignorance men Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast. Sting real-freedom breaths real Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. Sting blow winning children For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur. Sting book rooms firsts Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us. Sting mistake attitude believe I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it. Sting felt feels The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. Sting millennium worried matter My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. Sting getting-older singing interesting Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. Sting republican I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy. Sting respect cheer two
