Delaration Quotes

#1. Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Jon Stewart

#2. I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America ... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

#3. I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me ... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Jessica Lange

#4. I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

Mark David Chapman

#5. The beauty Snow White's got has nothing to do with him. She's scarred up and suspicious and shameless. Her pretty's not for him. It's like saying the moon's got a fine figure on her. Maybe true, but what good is that to a man? Snow

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.

Jeff Thomson

#7. Yeah, chocolate. Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. One

Jim Butcher

#8. I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#9. I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

Jeff Merkley

#10. If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark.

Ojo Michael E.

#11. A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

#12. The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#13. In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

Lou Barletta