Archibald Rutledge Quotes

#1. It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character ... Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.

Archibald Rutledge

#2. It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

Shirley Manson

#3. If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.

Archibald Rutledge

#4. It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

Archibald Rutledge

#5. The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Archibald Rutledge

#6. You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

Archibald Rutledge

#7. It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.

Archibald Rutledge

#8. Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.

Archibald Rutledge

#9. Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Archibald Rutledge

#10. For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

#11. It's a thing to see when a boy comes home.

John Steinbeck

#12. Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. There are certain things I do not talk about.

Jodi Picoult