Top 100 Garfield's Quotes
#1. If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.
Sarah Vowell
#2. In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In
Candice Millard
#3. Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".
Jefferson Davis
#4. Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
Jim Davis
#5. It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
#7. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield
#8. I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.
Andrew Garfield
#9. Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.
Andrew Garfield
#10. If you are patient ... and wait long enough ... Nothing will happen
Jim Davis
#12. When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
#13. Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
Andrew Garfield
#14. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
#15. Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield
Jim Davis
#16. I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.
Andrew Garfield
#17. I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better - we'd have interracial bisexuality!
Andrew Garfield
#18. Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
#19. I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
Andrew Garfield
#20. I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
John Garfield
#22. Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
#23. We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
James A. Garfield
#24. I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
Andrew Garfield
#25. The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
Charles Garfield
#26. Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield
#27. Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
#28. But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare ... are to be found portrayed in it.
James A. Garfield
#29. Garfield took Odie's paw. "Old pal, if anything happens to us, there's one thing you should know."
"It's going to happen to you first.
Jim Kraft
#30. You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
#31. Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
Andrew Garfield
#32. I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.
Andrew Garfield
#34. Although Garfield was dangerously ill, the idea of taking him to a hospital was never considered. Hospitals were only for people who had nowhere else to go. "No sick or injured person who could possibly be nursed at home or in a medical man's private residence,
Candice Millard
#35. You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?
Steve Garfield
#37. If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
#38. I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
Matt Groening
#39. Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe ... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on ... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.
Garfield Sobers
#40. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.
Simon Garfield
#41. In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best.
Garfield Sobers
#42. I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
Andrew Garfield
#43. Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.
Charles Garfield
#44. Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.
Garfield Sobers
#45. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
Charles Garfield
#46. There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!
Garfield, the cat.
Jim Davis
#47. In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,
the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.
James A. Garfield
#48. We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
James A. Garfield
#49. Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
#50. I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.
Jay L. Garfield
#51. We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future.
James A. Garfield
#52. I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.
Garfield Sobers
#53. He was horribly neglected, forgotten, pushed aside. It was almost as if Hollywood was so ashamed of what was done to him that they almost made him disappear.
Julie Garfield
#54. Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. Garfield
#55. True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
James A. Garfield
#56. Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.
Candice Millard
#59. James 4:14New King James Version (NKJV)
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Garfield Whyte
#61. Bleeding, idleness and mist, he murmured in an unusual mood of poetry.
It's like life, isn't it...
First the wound, then the resting, and then the uncertainty of it all.
Leon Garfield
#62. Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
Charles Garfield
#63. The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
#64. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
#67. The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.
Jay L. Garfield
#68. The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
#69. At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
James A. Garfield
#71. Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
Jim Cooper
#72. I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.
Andrew Garfield
#73. I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me ...
Whoopi Goldberg
#77. Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
#78. Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
James A. Garfield
#79. The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
#80. Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
James A. Garfield
#81. To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.
Jay L. Garfield
#83. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield
#84. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
Andrew Garfield
#85. Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.
Bob Garfield
#87. For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
James A. Garfield
#88. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
#89. We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
James A. Garfield
#90. Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.
Brian Garfield
#91. Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.
Patricia Garfield
#92. The world is run by ordinary People, so fools and geniuses will always be out of place.
Garfield Ellis
#93. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.
James A. Garfield
#94. I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.
Andrew Garfield
#95. There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.
John Garfield
#96. I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
James A. Garfield
#98. The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story.
Steve Garfield
#99. The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.
Garfield Sobers
#100. I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
John Garfield
