Top 72 Dat's Quotes
#1. Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
Andre Dubus III
#2. Aagragaah. It mean lit'rally der time when you see dem little pebbles and you jus' know dere's gonna be a great big landslide on toppa you and it already too late to run. Dat moment, dat's aagragaah.
Terry Pratchett
#3. But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's sot, stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when you fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you.
Mark Twain
#4. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.
Zora Neale Hurston
#5. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.
Zora Neale Hurston
#7. Dis love! Dat's just whut's got us uh pullin' and haulin' and sweatin' and doin' from can't see in de mornin' till can't see at night. Nanny to Janie
Zora Neale Hurston
#9. Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.
Eddie Huang
#10. Ah betcha you wants some dressed up dude dat got to look at de sole of his shoe everytime he cross de street tuh see whether he got enough leather dere tuh make it across.
Zora Neale Hurston
#11. We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
Dat Phan
#12. Ain't you my chile? En does you know anything dat a mother won't do for her chile? Day ain't nothin' a white mother won't do for her chile. Who made 'em so? De Lord done it. En who made de niggers? De Lord made 'em. In de inside, mothers is all de same. De good lord he made 'em so.
Mark Twain
#13. Ol' man river,
Dat ol' man river
He mus'know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin',
He jes'keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#14. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
Dat Phan
#15. As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
Harriet Tubman
#16. Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand ...
J.K. Rowling
#17. SISTER TAYLOR Brother Mayor, I ain't one of these folks dat bite my tongue and bust my gall - Whuts inside got to come out!
Zora Neale Hurston
#18. Naw, it's real. Ah couldn't stand it if he wuz tuh quit me. Don't know whut Ah'd do. He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives offa dat happiness he made till some mo' happiness come along.
Zora Neale Hurston
#19. I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy - what would you think?" "I wouldn' think nuffn; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat
Mark Twain
#20. I kind of wish they'd shut up," Jack said.
"Dude, true dat," Lend answered.
Jack nodded solemnly. "For serious.
Kiersten White
#21. And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.
Dat Phan
#22. I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
Joel Chandler Harris
#23. Rum," said Kona. "Too much hostility in dat buzz. Rum come from da cane, and cane come from slavin' the people, and dat oppression all distilled in de bottle and come out a man mean as cat shit on a day.
Christopher Moore
#24. Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?
Jack London
#25. Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.
Tricia Goyer
#26. Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.
Bob Marley
#27. Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.
Zora Neale Hurston
#28. It may amuse you to hear a Story. A few days ago, in Company with Dr Zubly, somebody said, there was nobody on our side but the Almighty. The Dr. who is a Native of Switzerland, and speaks but broken English, quickly replied 'Dat is enough.
John Adams
#29. Sudenly a gothic old man flu in on his broomstick. He had lung black hair and a looong black bread. He wus werring a blak robe dat sed 'avril lavigne' on da back. He shotted a spel and Vlodemort ran away. It was ... DUMBLYDORE!
Tara Gilesbie
#30. Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
[Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]
Ovid
#31. I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school ... who failed math.
Dat Phan
#32. Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.
Dat Phan
#33. There's nothing more refreshing than a good dose of paranoia after sex. ~ Tara Cole
Cindy Cruciger
#34. Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
Alice Childress
#35. What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
Douglas Wilder
#36. Shit," he said. "That was awkward as hell to witness."
"True dat," Keira murmured.
"Try being in my shoes," Rider said, sighing. He pulled me into his side. "You okay?"
"Yeah." I blinked. "Why...wouldn't I be?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. Ye have ta ask me dat? Ye do na know dat ye are all dat madders ta me?
Amy A. Bartol
#38. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.
Zora Neale Hurston
#39. I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.
Dat Phan
#40. Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.
Chris Abani
#41. It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.
Dat Phan
#42. Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye were me sanctuary. Me solace in a world gone mad. I'd endure a thousand deat's to go back and ensure ye did not feel one moment of pain.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#43. You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
Tom Robbins
#44. Ieder orgasme is een kleine echo van de oerknal; geen wonder dat sex van alle tijden is.
(Translated into English: 'Every orgasm is a little echo of the Big Bang; no wonder sex is of all times.' )
Willem Van Batenburg
#45. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.
Mark Twain
#46. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.
Dat Phan
#47. De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.
Zora Neale Hurston
#48. I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.
Tim Rutili
#49. Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?
Dick Murdoch
#50. If you always say no, you will never say yes
Dat Guy
#51. It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.
Dave McKean
#52. De young an old are doing it I have a rappin mudder
Everybody has dere rap so let's rap to each other
No matter what yu style or de hat dat yu are wearing
Yu can even get away wida little swearing,
Fuck.
Benjamin Zephaniah
#53. As I left I heard Ramses say, 'May I remark, Papa, dat alt'ough your consideration for my sensitivities was quite unnecessary, I am not without a proper appreciation of de sentiment dat prompted it.
Elizabeth Peters
#54. Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.
Dat Phan
#55. I can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light
Sunil Sharma
#56. Vietnam, we take over by doing pedicure! That's how we take over. We take over one foot at a time, damn it - that's the plan of attack right there. We take over from the toe up, that's the plan. We spread over USA like fungus from the toe.
Dat Phan
#57. Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain't got nothin' tuh do wid love.
Zora Neale Hurston
#58. Bekeren is geen mensenwerk. Dat laat ik over aan God.
(Converting people is not a job for humans. I leave that to God).
D. Menkens-van De Spiegel
#59. You won't git far and you won't be long, when dat big gut reach over and grab dat little one,
Zora Neale Hurston
#60. What make Gatsby so damn great - like da book's title indicatin' - is dat unlike da rest of deez shallow rich folk, Gatsby actually believe in somethin': love, dawg. He build himself a new identity jus' for Daisy. Errybody else straight-up empty inside.
Sparky Sweets
#61. Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.
William Faulkner
#62. I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in. 'Tain't no earthly use. They's jus' some puny humans playin' round de toes uh Time.
Zora Neale Hurston
#63. Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.
Chris Cleave
#65. Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
Zora Neale Hurston
#66. When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
Dat Phan
#67. First love is like dat," Brennus says tiredly. "But, den ye mature and find a deeper love, one dat was created jus for ye.
Amy A. Bartol
#68. whatever dat gal want to show you, going to be wid you til de doctor clear you!
Theresa L. Henry
#69. Fish got to swim, birds got to fly
I got to love one man till I die
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#70. Bend over to the front touch toes
Back dat ass up and down and get low (get low)
Lil Jon
#71. I look upon meself as ... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies ... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!
Phil Lynott
#72. It's bad bein' strange niggers wid white folks. Everybody is aginst yuh." "Dat sho is de truth. De ones de white man know is nice colored folks. De ones he don't know is bad niggers.
Zora Neale Hurston
