Top 27 Fiorello La Guardia Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Fiorello La Guardia

#1. Don't speak negatively and don't listen to those who do.

#2. When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

#3. Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

#5. You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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#6. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

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#7. An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Tina Fey

#9. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

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#10. Pull your shirt up over your mouth," he told Wylan.
"What?"
"Stop being dense. You're cuter when you're smart."
Wylan's cheeks went pink. He scowled and pulled his collar up.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

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#12. I'm scared of everything except you.

Egba Terry

#13. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

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#14. Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

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#15. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

Jamie Le Fay

#16. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

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#17. We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

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#18. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson

#19. Just go with your gut and communicate.

Andy Cohen

#20. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

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#21. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

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