Top 95 Cleaver's Quotes
#1. Man. He felt almost guilty about the condoms in his wallet. A guy wasn't supposed to lust after Beaver Cleaver's mom.
Jasmine Haynes
#2. The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.
Richard Kadrey
#3. Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He
John Updike
#4. Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
Eldridge Cleaver
#5. To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
Naomi Cleaver
#6. This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.
F. Paul Wilson
#7. We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.
Eldridge Cleaver
#8. And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who'd just collapsed in my house; learning to cook like June Cleaver didn't exactly seem an option.
Mark Doty
#9. Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
Victor Hugo
#10. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver
#11. This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.
Emanuel Cleaver
#12. Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Emanuel Cleaver
#13. Your life is defined by death, and each time you face it you grow stronger. You learn more, and feel more. It sounds stupid to say it like this, but not dying makes you more alive.
Dan Wells
#14. I've almost never seen in China what Westerners would consider a fair fight. Somebody always pulls out a meat cleaver or picks up a brick to smash your head in. Or they simply gang up on you, like the cops were presently doing.
Rudy Kong
#15. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
Eldridge Cleaver
#16. June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.
Barbara Billingsley
#17. People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
Barbara Billingsley
#18. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
#19. [Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.
Emanuel Cleaver
#21. The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.
Eldridge Cleaver
#22. Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o'clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can't be much fun.
Daniel Craig
#23. We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.
Huey Newton
#24. Then Manon Blackbeak whirled and brought Wind-Cleaver down upon her grandmother.
Sarah J. Maas
#25. The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
Emanuel Cleaver
#26. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. I'm the demonslayer. Come and get me.
Dan Wells
#28. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
#29. You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
Ben Cross
#30. If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
Plutarch
#31. It doesn't matter what other people think when you're right - John Cleaver
Dan Wells
#32. Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.
Emanuel Cleaver
#33. You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
Gordon Parks
#34. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#35. When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.
Tony Cleaver
#36. With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Eldridge Cleaver
#37. I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
Emanuel Cleaver
#38. Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
#39. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
#40. The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#41. Every time I embrace a black woman I'm embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I'm hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death ... . I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.
Eldridge Cleaver
#42. The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver
#43. If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Eldridge Cleaver
#44. Anytime you don't have a picture in your head, you're in trouble or will be soon.
Jerry Cleaver
#45. Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
Emanuel Cleaver
#48. You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?
Christopher Paolini
#49. Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver
#50. Bloody, broken bits of flesh make up what I think is a face, but it's hard to tell. It looks like someone carved it up with a cleaver.
Apryl Baker
#52. The four brothers and three sisters were by all accounts a formidable team who rarely lost a match, partly, it is said, because of the intimidation felt by opposing teams at the sight of Walter standing on the sidelines with a wand in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other.
J.K. Rowling
#53. The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver
#54. There is always a way out for those cleaver enough to find it-Athena
When you wake up, you have two choices, to go on dreaming your dreams or get up and chase them.
It's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
a journey begins with a single step.
Rick Riordan
#56. Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
Emanuel Cleaver
#57. I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Eldridge Cleaver
#58. In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
#59. Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is
Lesley Downer
#60. We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.
Emanuel Cleaver
#61. But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.
Eldridge Cleaver
#62. We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
Emanuel Cleaver
#63. America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.
Emanuel Cleaver
#64. I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.
Huey Newton
#65. How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances. It was one of the congenial labors of
William Cleaver Wilkinson
#66. If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
#67. History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
#69. Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!
Emanuel Cleaver
#70. What is that in his hand?"
"A cleaver. As in-"
"Butcher's knife."
"You got it."
"I hope not."
"He does not look happy."
"Are you sure it's a he?"
"I don't want to know.
Ridley Pearson
#71. First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.
Emanuel Cleaver
#73. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly Ripa
#74. We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
Eldridge Cleaver
#75. You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#76. It wasn't long before I had the urge to glance inside. I then had a slight moment of panic. Number one, Big John was walking out the door with a meat cleaver gleaming in his hand. Yes, a meat cleaver.
Number two, he was glaring at Caleb like he was the devil himself.
Shelly Crane
#77. What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Eldridge Cleaver
#78. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver
#79. Where I am at, is not actually where I am at. Where I am at is merely a point on the path to where I am going.
Tony Cleaver
#80. I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
Barbara Billingsley
#81. It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
Dan Wells
#82. We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
Emanuel Cleaver
#83. We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?'
'I feel ... ' What do I feel?
I guess that's good enough.
I feel.
Dan Wells
#84. Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat
Eldridge Cleaver
#85. SEN. McCARTHY: You will teach morality, ethics, and good house-keeping to these 48 states, and to the world. By order of this committee, June Cleaver, you will be a beacon! You will sire the future and teach it what we tell you to teach it! Echo effect, echo effect, echo effect ...
Benjamin R. Smith
#86. God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
Emanuel Cleaver
#87. There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
Emanuel Cleaver
#88. Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver
Dan Wells
#90. You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
Tony Cleaver
#91. We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.
Emanuel Cleaver
#92. If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#93. I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.
Eldridge Cleaver
#94. The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
Eldridge Cleaver
#95. I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
Eldridge Cleaver