Top 100 Bratton Quotes
#1. This is a very insulting tribute
But take it in good heart
Congratulations Mom and Dad
You've reached Silver together ... apart
Lots of love etc
John Walter Bratton
#2. Congratulations!
If I may be so bold
Only 40 years to go
Before you're a century old
Just saying
John Walter Bratton
#3. The Taliban is the worst ... great heroin though.
Creed Bratton
#4. You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do ... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.
Creed Bratton
#5. Consider this on your birthday
You've got life's struggle beaten
For 60 years you've ate
And avoided being eaten
John Walter Bratton
#7. Mom as it's your birthday
And, unfortunately, not mine
Give me some money and I'll get out your hair
While you have a large glass of wine
I try so hard to be thoughtful
John Walter Bratton
#8. As it's your 40th birthday
This, we'd like to say
May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
On this, your special day.
John Walter Bratton
#10. The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.
John Walter Bratton
#11. I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.
Creed Bratton
#12. Be pleased to look forward,
And pleased to look behind,
Count today, your 40th, and each birthday
With a grateful mind.
John Walter Bratton
#13. They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels, so that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.
William Bratton
#14. Six happy years together
Such a perfect matching
You're entering the 7 year itch zone
This is no time for scratching
John Walter Bratton
#15. If I could choose the perfect Dad
There's no one I would rather
Have Dad, than you Dad
Coz you go further, Father
Happy Birthday Father
John Walter Bratton
#16. Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.
Creed Bratton
#17. A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt.
John Walter Bratton
#18. Free ... Yes ... FREE time
Is what retirement brings
Leisure, lounging and loafing
And other lazy things
John Walter Bratton
#19. As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image.
Benjamin H. Bratton
#20. Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?
John Walter Bratton
#21. Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.
Creed Bratton
#22. It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun
That's July Four
July Five, the fun is done
The fireworks are no more
John Walter Bratton
#23. Congratulations on turning 60
Now you can wear what you like
No one cares, and more particularly
You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'
John Walter Bratton
#24. At 50, you probably get muddled?
I'm the same, that's how I know?
If you ever get lost, don't worry?
Just change where you want to go
John Walter Bratton
#25. Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
No need to have wisdom and sage
But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
Do try to act more your age
John Walter Bratton
#26. May today be filled
With bright hopes for the future
And happy memories of the past
John Walter Bratton
#27. Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes aren't final, when
You only mean we'll miss you
Until we meet again
John Walter Bratton
#28. I've been writing verses
For 60 years ... phew!
And d'yer know why I did it?
T'was especially for you
John Walter Bratton
#29. I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.
Creed Bratton
#31. I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.
Creed Bratton
#32. Thank you Dad ...
for listening and caring,
for giving and sharing,
but, especially, for just being you!
Happy Birthday to you
John Walter Bratton
#33. When you gaze upon the lovely sight. Of twins, arm in arm, asleep at night. Think not that the house has been doubly messed. But that you, as parents, have been doubly blessed.
John Walter Bratton
#34. This goodbye will only seem
Like an eternal pain
If I fail to merely miss you
Until we meet again
As we assuredly will
I've made my mind up
John Walter Bratton
#35. As it's your 50th birthday
The very best of cheers to you
Truthfully, I'm just being selfish
Coz now I am so cheerful, too
Happy, Cheerful Birthday
John Walter Bratton
#36. Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
That's the fate of every Magpie
While Mam perfects her game show skills
Giving talks at the WI
John Walter Bratton
#37. If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.
Creed Bratton
#38. It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish.
So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then
Just think, you'll be 70
In just those short years, numbering ten
John Walter Bratton
#39. I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds.
William Bratton
#41. I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
Creed Bratton
#42. We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.
William Bratton
#43. Take life with a pinch of salt
A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime
Do nothing at all
But take your time
John Walter Bratton
#44. Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder
William Bratton
#45. I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.
Creed Bratton
#46. I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.
Creed Bratton
#47. You moan a lot and jingle your change
But let's face it, there's no escape
You can flick the remote as much as you like
But she's on the TV and on every tape
John Walter Bratton
#48. What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.
Creed Bratton
#49. Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
To say goodbye
Isn't a pain
Unless you're never going ... !
(Tee hee)
John Walter Bratton
#50. Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
Creed Bratton
#52. Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
No lying about your age, more lying around the house
After lying much longer in bed
John Walter Bratton
#53. Today is very
For it's about a special birth
For the very finest Dad
That ever walked upon this Earth
John Walter Bratton
#54. In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.
Creed Bratton
#55. You're 60
But honestly it doesn't show
Mind you, you reached the age of consent
About 50,000 consents ago!
John Walter Bratton
#56. You've reached your 60th birthday, Bill
To the year, the day, the hour
You've been a lifelong country boy
Along with Lily, your flower
And Robin ... that's the name of a bird
And Dawn ... that says it all
John Walter Bratton
#57. There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
Creed Bratton
#58. I'm soooo happy you're my Dad
And soooo I want to say
I love you, Dad, and wish you
A sooo very best birthday
John Walter Bratton
#59. We can reveal that John's 85
That's a well known fact
Telling Kathy's age would be a breach
Of the Official Secrets Act
John Walter Bratton
#60. Look back on your wedding
And be filled with joy and pride
Deservedly so, for the many years
You've flourished, side by side
John Walter Bratton
#61. Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports.
Benjamin H. Bratton
#62. In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
Creed Bratton
#63. A Dad gives hope
When life is low
A Dad's a place
Where you can go
A Dad is honest
A Dad is true
A Dad is precious
My DAD is You
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to YOU
John Walter Bratton
#65. Yes, you're very very old
But try to think of it as not being cursed
After all, in a hostage situation
You'd be released first!
John Walter Bratton
#66. You really must stop acting
Like a 20-year-old, gold plated
In a midlife crisis
You just graduated
Happy 60th
John Walter Bratton
#67. We've shared good (times)
We've shared good fries
We've shared good (beers)
But never goodbyes ...
Till now
Mind how you go, good buddy
John Walter Bratton
#68. At 50 you now have realized
?Getting old isn't fair?
And that it's hard to make a comeback
?When you haven't gone anywhere
John Walter Bratton
#69. I've been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Creed Bratton
#71. Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.
Creed Bratton
#72. On your birthday today, don't
Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
Trust me, you'll be depressed.
John Walter Bratton
#73. It takes a minute to say hello
Why? I wonder why
When it's seems to take forever
When you have to say Goodbye?
John Walter Bratton
#76. I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.
Creed Bratton
#77. Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
Creed Bratton
#80. I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.
Creed Bratton
#81. I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
Creed Bratton
#82. Happy Anniversary, my darling
Here's to a day that's filled with fun
While we joyously remember
When us two became a one
John Walter Bratton
#83. A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon ... You'll be galloping up that hill.
John Walter Bratton
#85. The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones.
Benjamin H. Bratton
#86. So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
John Walter Bratton
#87. Gladys.. work has kept you fit
And Bill.. you never moan
Well life's not for carrying cases
With a butler of your own
John Walter Bratton
#88. It's not easy for you, Dad
You seek your own space
You slope off to watch telly
But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
John Walter Bratton
#90. No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.
Creed Bratton
#91. If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!
John Walter Bratton
#92. You've had a long working life
As everyone knows
You can now do nothing at all
And then have a doze
Enjoy Your Retirement
John Walter Bratton
#93. True Friends are the bacon bits
In the salad bowl of life. How true
I read that and straight away,
My thoughts turned to you
And especially today on your 60th
These special wishes I send
Have a really wonderful birthday
My special "bacon flavored" friend
John Walter Bratton
#94. You've travelled through life together
Enjoying years of wedded bliss
We congratulate you on reaching
And we toast your happiness
John Walter Bratton
#95. Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.
Benjamin H. Bratton
#96. Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade
John Walter Bratton
#98. As a World-trekker, go-getter
Retirement won't have you stopping
You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from
At the supermarket ... doing the shopping
John Walter Bratton
#99. It started with a simple ring,
You became husband and wife,
You progressed to being parents
And you're still best friends for life.
John Walter Bratton
#100. If age was temperature,
You'd be getting hotter
Happy 60th degree
You, hot shotter
John Walter Bratton
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