Quinton Aaron Quotes

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Good things just keep happening.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

There's not enough good things in the world.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.