Top 22 Decatur Quotes

#1. It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

Stephen Decatur

#2. My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

Stephen Decatur

#3. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

#4. I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

Scotty Bowman

#5. You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit.

Stephen Decatur

#6. If I allowed it, he'd strap on a proton pack and follow me around the country

Kendare Blake

#7. I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.

Robert Klein

#8. If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

Robert Klein

#10. Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

Anthony Hopkins

#11. Yet, to the wigwam audience in Decatur, Lincoln presented a strange figure. He didn't seem euphoric, or triumphant, or even pleased. To the contrary, said a man named Johnson, observing from the convention floor, "I then thought him one of the most diffident and worst plagued men I ever saw.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#12. I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people
either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Saul Bellow

#13. I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

Keri Hilson

#14. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#15. If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Paul Keating

#16. First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

#17. Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.

Woody Allen

#18. It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

Chris Milk

#19. Nicole Powell of Decatur, Georgia, was off-limits to hot cowboy lawyers. There was no way in hell she was going to return home with her tail between her legs all because she'd let him put HIS there.

Victoria Vane

#20. And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began. Next the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed's head made Tom shudder - it meant that somebody's days were numbered.

Mark Twain

#21. I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

Emily Saliers

#22. After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

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