1940s American Sayings

#1. There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap.

Sarah Pussell

#2. You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

Sebastyne Young

#3. Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

Randy Alcorn

#4. In the 1940s a white American man wrote about the sacred myths of other cultures. He decided he knew what they meant better than those cultures themselves did.

Drew Jacob

#5. Irwins are never more alive than when they're five minutes away from getting slaughtered.

Mira Grant

#6. I thought I'd do something nice for the band ... I'll hang myself.

Jason Newsted

#7. Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

Meg Wolitzer

#8. Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Anthony Zinni

#9. Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary

#10. 'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

Gene Luen Yang

#11. When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

Andy Warhol