Top 78 Crockett's Quotes

#1. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1548
#2. A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #4653
#3. Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #46498
#4. Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #53866
#5. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #145949
#6. The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #184833
#7. You can all go to Hell, I'm going to Texas!

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #213483
#8. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.

Karen Witemeyer

Crockett's Quotes #214540
#9. Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #239571
#10. Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #294866
#11. Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #295356
#12. If you want a fast, fun and sexy read, then Do Not Assume is the book for you.

Elaine Williams Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #300481
#13. I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #367020
#14. Sometimes you don't know where you want to go until you start walking.

Kelli Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #368567
#15. We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #368957
#16. Music is always key to me, whether it's 'Miami Vice' or not 'Miami Vice.' It's dictated by the story, about what Crockett and Tubbs and Isabella and Trudy are doing.

Michael Mann

Crockett's Quotes #374924
#17. You've a good heart,Joanna Robbins,he said from his perch on the wagon seat. It's easy to see why Jackson admires you.

Karen Witemeyer

Crockett's Quotes #403851
#18. Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

S.D. Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #420026
#19. Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #430190
#20. If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #433005
#21. It was a little boy looking lost among a bunch of kneecaps.

Mary Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #439796
#22. Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #481012
#23. The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #491762
#24. Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good ...

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #499821
#25. Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #557392
#26. The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing.

Joan Rivers

Crockett's Quotes #567988
#27. The first step in Overcoming domestic violence begins with recognizing you are in an abusive relationship.

Grace Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #577757
#28. Grampa's long beard was serving as a bookmark in a well-thumbed paperback with a Western-themed cover. I never knew what would catch Grampa's fancy in the book department. He was as likely to be caught reading a gothic romantic suspense as he was a snowblower repair manual.

Jessie Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #578324
#29. There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #621831
#30. Don't jump if you can't take the fall

Kelli Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #628743
#31. You can go to hell
I'm going to Texas.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #634311
#32. If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #637940
#33. Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #643970
#34. A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #649545
#35. You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #655067
#36. be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #663644
#37. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #711969
#38. I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #751540
#39. Know your right, then go ahead.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #760903
#40. It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

Nick Lowe

Crockett's Quotes #768616
#41. Be what lights up the dark

Kelli Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #781031
#42. The received wisdom is that risk increases in the recession and falls in booms. In contrast, it may be more helpful to think of risk as increasing during upswings, as financial imbalances build up, and materializing in recessions.

Andrew Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #798496
#43. When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

Douglas Brinkley

Crockett's Quotes #808996
#44. It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #825891
#45. There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

Phil Collins

Crockett's Quotes #827951
#46. I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #828153
#47. I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

Libba Bray

Crockett's Quotes #829687
#48. It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson ... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #846183
#49. I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Harry Anderson

Crockett's Quotes #937880
#50. I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends ... Farewell, David Crockett. His

Bill O'Reilly

Crockett's Quotes #945654
#51. I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1073307
#52. I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

Phil Collins

Crockett's Quotes #1093602
#53. Just because a flame will burn out, doesn't mean that it can't dance in the dark.

Kelli Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1111089
#54. I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1123098
#55. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.

Paul Mooney

Crockett's Quotes #1184606
#56. If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn't worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.

Kristen Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1200196
#57. Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans

Jeannette Walls

Crockett's Quotes #1209668
#58. Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.

Kristen Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1230392
#59. Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1274883
#60. Yet it was her inner light that captured him most.

Karen Witemeyer

Crockett's Quotes #1278038
#61. You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1367378
#62. Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1372679
#63. Unless he'd missed is guess, Miss Joanna Robbins possessed the soul of a missionary. How that had come to be when she'd been raised by an outlaw and his gang, Crockett couldn't fathom. Yet he sensed her passion. Respected it. He'd not belittle her dream.

Karen Witemeyer

Crockett's Quotes #1391348
#64. Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1401337
#65. I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1405986
#66. I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1505768
#67. If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.

Kristen Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1566741
#68. Davy Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said. "for stealing this land from the Mexicans" - and

Anonymous

Crockett's Quotes #1631327
#69. I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1711450
#70. It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1720078
#71. Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1799043
#72. You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1813427
#73. When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.

Phil Collins

Crockett's Quotes #1816793
#74. Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1823773
#75. That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything.

S.D. Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1832039
#76. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man

David Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1858480
#77. Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1860849
#78. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett

Crockett's Quotes #1877960

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