Alvin York Quotes

#1. The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Bill Bowerman

#2. The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

Alvin C. York

#3. I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.

Alvin C. York

#4. If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.

Arthur Helps

#5. One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion ... Our faith grows by expression ... we must share it - we must witness.

Billy Graham

#6. I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

Alvin C. York

#7. When you have God behind you, you can come out on top every time.

Alvin C. York

#8. The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.

Ernest Cline

#9. There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. I've got it!" he declared suddenly, snapping his fingers in triumph.
"Take your knickers off."
"What?" Did that mean what I think it did?
"Your knickers. You know - panties, underwear, muff-huggers, nasty nets -

Jeaniene Frost

#11. If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Danny Brown

#12. Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

Ric Keller

#13. Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.

Alvin C. York

#14. Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti