Top 29 Dobie Quotes
#1. The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
J. Frank Dobie
#2. The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
J. Frank Dobie
#4. If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
Francis Schaeffer
#5. I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
Susan Bysiewicz
#6. Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie
#7. Thanks for the joy that you're givin' me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along, makin' me strong,
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll
And drift away ...
Dobie Gray
#8. When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.
Bob Denver
#9. Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
J. Frank Dobie
#10. I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie
#11. I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.
Dwayne Hickman
#12. Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
J. Frank Dobie
#14. I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
Gary Miller
#15. A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner ... but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
J. Frank Dobie
#16. I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
Jeremy London
#17. Perhaps because they were so enamored of the official rules of finance, the Germans proved especially vulnerable to a false idea the rules encouraged: that there is such a thing as a riskless asset.
Michael Lewis
#18. The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
David Mitchell
#19. Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."
J. Frank Dobie
#20. The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
#21. Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.
Dobie Gray
#22. Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.
Woo Myung
#23. Peace on earth, good will to men
From Heaven's all - gracious King
Dobie Gray
#24. When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
J. Frank Dobie
#25. The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
J. Frank Dobie
#26. No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
J. Frank Dobie
#27. Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.
Dwayne Hickman
#29. The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world - - the cowboy songs of Texas and the West - - are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
J. Frank Dobie
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