Quotes by "John Denver"

Thank you for this precious day, These gifts you give to me, My heart so full of love for you, Sings praise for all I see, Oh, sing, for every mother's love, For every childhood tear, Oh, sing, for all the stars above, The peace beyond all fear

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

My activities were centered around school and football and church and senior high fellowship, and I got together with a couple bands and started playing parties, proms, stuff like that. It was the music that really worked for me.

I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.