Died With Their Boots On Quotes

#1. By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.

Fannie Flagg

#2. I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#3. Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.

Alain De Botton

#4. The first rays of the sun peeked up over the horizon and licked the village. "Fire," said Gein in an excited whisper.

Tim Baer

#5. One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

John Steinbeck

#6. Suffer all, and conquer all.

John Wesley

#7. New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Ramez Naam

#8. He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now.

Ann Voskamp

#9. Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

Lea Thompson

#10. Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

Suzanne Collins

#11. They still weren't as cold as my heart was, though.

Jennifer Estep

#12. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Stephen King

#13. No nerve, hey? Not half a man! ... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man ... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!

Zane Grey

#14. A third of the houses were ruined by fire or explosions, or even by the former occupants themselves, who, like farmers sowing their fields with salt, believed destruction to be the final act of ownership.

Anthony Marra