“Bring you down, can't bring you down
Bring you down, can't hear the sound
Run through the river and head to town
Pretty little moon with it's head hung down
Chin up. Cheer up.”

“Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Don't let the man bring you down.”

Maya Angelou book The Heart of a Woman

“OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo!”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

Андре Ромелль Янг (Dr. Dre) (1965)

“Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove