Draftee Quotes

#1. If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Vincent McNabb

#3. 'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much ...

Lewis Carroll

#4. What was that?" I ask as I blow through.
"You were behind schedules," she says, panting but keeping pace next to me as we sprint down the pier. "Figured you could use some help, so I blew the transformer.

Tera Lynn Childs

#5. The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. There won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)

Lynne Ewing

#7. Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.

George R R Martin

#8. The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

Earl Warren

#9. The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

#10. I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

Nelson Peltz

#11. How much to be pitied is he, who has no pity!

Publilius Syrus

#12. Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

Grace Gealey

#13. Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.

Dale Watson