George Jefferson Sayings

#1. All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Andy Borowitz

#2. My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

Jenny Slate

#3. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Marshall, all big men, and strong in every sense, deferred to him.

Mark David Ledbetter

#4. Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

David Harewood

#5. I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

George Will

#6. The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

John P. Avlon

#7. Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Coo Coo Marlin

#8. There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

George F. Will

#9. I propose ... The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

Alexander Hamilton

#10. Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

Ryan North

#11. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George MacDonald

#12. I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.

Newt Gingrich

#13. People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Sharron Angle

#14. When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

Joseph J. Ellis

#15. Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.

Tristram Stuart

#16. I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

Irene Cara

#17. President George Washington's namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an "Empire of Liberty" for the world.

Patrick Mendis

#18. If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen's mirror would definitely say it was the fairest of them all.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#19. Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

Sandra Lerner

#20. I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

Charlaine Harris

#21. I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again.

Jenny Han

#22. We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Nicolas Chamfort

#23. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.

Jeff Ferry