Best Annie Oakley Quotes

#1. Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America. - Author: Enrique Pena Nieto

#2. My mother ... was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers. - Author: Annie Oakley

#3. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. - Author: Annie Oakley

#4. I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children. - Author: Martin Ryle

#5. Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance. - Author: Annie Oakley

#6. I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. - Author: Chester A. Arthur

#7. Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. - Author: Annie Oakley

#8. I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies. - Author: Annie Oakley

#9. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born. - Author: Annie Oakley

#10. How can I describe what effect that ancient, absurd, and wonderful rite has upon me when her lips touch mine? Can I find a formula to express that whirlwind which sweeps out of my soul everything, everything save her? - Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. I ain't afraid to love a man ... - Author: Annie Oakley

#12. Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now? - Author: Deeanne Gist

#13. A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys ... And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home. - Author: Annie Oakley

#14. [On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. - Author: Annie Oakley

#15. She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. - Author: Barack Obama

#16. I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there. - Author: Ted Olson

#17. God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house. - Author: Annie Oakley

#18. Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life. - Author: Annie Oakley

#19. Always. Only. Ever yours. - Author: Jillian Dodd

#20. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success. - Author: Annie Oakley

#21. I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either. - Author: Annie Oakley

#22. The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach. - Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. CJ added more beer to her mug. "If I recall correctly, the last verbal directive we were given was 'don't shoot anyone' when we were in Hoganville. And I do believe I did not fire my weapon." She glanced over at Paige. "But our dear, sweet Paige Riley turned into Annie Oakley. - Author: Gerri Hill

#25. For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work. - Author: Annie Oakley