Quotes and Observations from the Trailer Park Kid

A Few Quotes

If you don’t believe revisionist history is real, just get someone talking about the ‘good ole days’.

-Edward Reed 2025

It’s hard to chew the fat when there’s not much fat to chew.

-Edward Reed 2025

I ask for my brothers and sisters from around the world and in America too who visit my page, prayer warriors everywhere, to lift the United States of America up in prayer. My country desperately needs your  prayers as we have become a people like those of Nineveh, a people who cannot tell their right hand from their left. Join me in my prayer for a revival in America and a revival around this world and pass this on to another brother or another sister. We are all kin and not too far back either. Remember Prayer is all we have and Prayer is all we need. To God be the glory.

-Edward Reed 11/24/2025

When did Christmas become Wishmas?

-Edward Reed 2025

Really! How many meaningful and enduring relationships have began with, “Let’s talk about how different we are from each other and  explore all the things we don’t have in common.”? What this world needs is unity.

-Edward Reed 2025

When was the last time you saw a fight start with a guy asking someone to hold his salad?

-Edward Reed 2025

If you want to see the America remember as a kid, dust off some old photo albums and watch more re-runs on free-tv.

-Edward Reed 2025

I often wonder if we are all following the same Jesus.

-Edward Reed 2025

I am grateful that my ancestors gave up on celibacy, in some cases gave into promiscuity, and most of all sacrificed their virginity.

-Edward Reed 2025

The most powerful of all weapons is information.

-Edward Reed 2025

How much do you really need to know in order to truly understand? Probably not as much as you think.

-Edward Reed 2025

When life deals you a bad hand……reshuffle.

-Edward Reed 2025

A fifty percent chance of rain is also a fifty percent chance of sunshine.

-Edward Reed 2025

It’s easy to hate someone you don’t know.

-Edward Reed 2025

Life’s too short to hate.

-Edward Reed 2025

Why is it called “The News”  when there ain’t nothing about it “New” at all?

-Edward Reed 2025

When will I learn by continuing to return day after day and feed at the trough of mainstream media I am becoming less like the youngest son mentioned in the 15th  Chapter of Luke and more like the dog in the 26th Chapter of Proverbs? When was the last time I watched the sun rise? Its time to wake up and come on back home. 

-Edward Reed 2025

Ninety percent of what’s in the Bible, isn’t in the Bible.

-Edward Reed 2025

Can a person be politically agnostic?

-Edward Reed

Free Speech is like Free Will,  it “ain’t” free.

-Edward Reed 2025

The more time you spend doing things you don’t like, the more time you can spend doing things you do like.

-Edward Reed 2025

If you live in a country where you have to worry more about losing weight, rather than gaining weight, you are living in a pretty good country.

-Edward Reed 2025

‘Who you was,’ doesn’t have to be ‘who you is.’

-Edward Reed 2025

Teachers are freedom’s footsoldiers.

-Edward Reed 2025

Had my teachers been harder my life would have been easier.

-Edward Reed 2025

When you are young, you are looking for a woman who is good looking. Then, when you get a little older you are a looking for a woman who is good cooking.

-Edward Reed 2025

Sometimes the only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.

-Edward Reed 2025

Every step you take is leading somewhere.

-Edward Reed 2025

A poor man never gave me a job.

– Edward Reed 2025

When will we ever learn, “You can’t out god God” ?

-Edward Reed 2024

We must never forget, the lesser of two evils is still evil.

-Edward Reed 2024

Good news never makes for good news.

-Edward Reed 2024

Those who say, do not know, and those who know, do not say.

-Edward Reed 2024

Man-dollars are a poor measure of true riches.

-Edward Reed 2024

Is there any hope for the souled out?

-Edward Reed 2024

Nothing gets things done like deceit.

-Edward Reed 2024

A sad and tragic truth… wisdom can never keep up with knowledge.

-Edward Reed 2024

There is no sin in going off course. The sin is staying off course.

-Edward Reed 2024

Those who live in the past don’t have very much of a future.

-Edward Reed 2024

When the forefathers were putting so much thought into taxation without representation do you think they ever considered representation without taxation?

-Edward Reed 2024

When God makes of you a teacher, God makes of you a student.

-Edward Reed 2024

A great first step to getting ahead is getting along.

-Edward Reed 2024

Believe it or not, these are the good old days.

-Edward Reed 2023

First man makes technology, then technology makes man, and finally technology makes technology.

-Edward Reed 2023

Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should do something.

-Edward Reed 2023

The path of least resistance never leads very far.

-Edward Reed 2023

The thing about being young is you have had so little time every second seems like your last and then when you are old you have so little time every second seems like your last. Enjoy the in between. It never last long enough.

-Edward Reed 2023

Does not being a bad person, make me a good person?

-Edward Reed 2023

You see what you look for.

-Edward Reed 2023

The future got here sooner than I expected.

-Edward Reed 2023

Why is it that things we need to talk about the most are the very things we can’t talk about at all?

-Edward Reed 2023

Happiness is and inside job.

-Edward Reed 2023

Everyone wears three faces.

-Edward Reed 2023

It is what it is and it ‘ain’t’ what it ‘ain’t.’

-Edward Reed 2023

In the end, it is always up to us which end of the horse we become.

-Edward Reed 2023

It’s best to know who’s answering your prayers.

-Edward Reed 2023

About the only thing you can attract with chicken feed is chickens.

-Edward Reed 2023

You don’t have to fool all of the people all of the time, only enough of the people enough of the time.

-Edward Reed 2023

Same news, just different paper.

-Edward Reed 2023

Little things mean everything.

-Edward Reed 2023

Nothing reveals the past like the future.

-Edward Reed 2023

Sometimes it seems those who are hardest to love are those who need love the most.

-Edward Reed 2022

Endings are merely beginnings waiting to happen.

-Edward Reed 2022

Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous thing.

-Edward Reed

You can never overdo love.

-Edward Reed 2021

Everybody can help somebody.

-Edward Reed 2021

If you are not playing to win, then why are you playing?

Edward Reed 2021

God gives us what we need, the devil gives us what we want.

-Edward Reed 2021

Its not what you know or who you know, its what you know on who you know.

-Edward Reed 2021

The only person standing in your way is the person standing in your shoes.

-Edward Reed 2021

The problems with knowing is, you don’t know what you don’t know.

-Edward Reed 2021

With information comes misinformation.

-Edward Reed 2021

People who will murder babies will murder you.

-Edward Reed 2020

If you ever start quitting, pretty soon afterwards, you will quit starting.

-Edward Reed 2020

The world is no more evil or less evil than it is right now.

-Edward Reed 2020

Where did we get the notion, that because we can plant the seed, we are also the ones who make it grow?

-Edward Reed 2020

God doesn’t make backup plans, and when we are with God we don’t need backup plans either.

-Edward Reed 2020

“If it was wrong for our grandparents, and wrong for their grandparents before them, its wrong for us. A few more trips around the sun doesn’t make a wrong thing, right.”

-Edward Reed 2020

It takes more courage to love than it does to hate. -Edward Reed 2020

If I could see 20/20, I would close my eyes.   Edward Reed 2020

We must never accept. “The way things are,” is the “The way things have to be.”    Edward Reed 2018

We can call the sun the moon and the moon the sun, but the days will be just as long and the nights just as dark.  -Edward Reed 2019

My grandpa told me there are two reasons folks pick on others; one is they haven’t looked at themselves in a mirror lately and the other is that they have. -Edward Reed 2019

Any attempt to undo all the pain and suffering of past mistakes is like greasing a nail after stepping on it. We can only correct the future. -Edward Reed

One our way to the circus my grandpa told me, I would get more out of the show if I spent more of my time watching the elephant, than watching the elephant’s poop. -Edward Reed

Don’t let what you don’t have keep you from using what you do have, and don’t let what you  can’t do keep you from doing what you can do. -Edward Reed

Time makes mortals of us all; love immortal. -Edward Reed