George Kennedy Quotes

#1. When I was modeling as a teenager ... I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

Alexis Bledel

#2. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

John F. Kennedy

#3. In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Lewis Black

#4. By ordering the director of central intelligence to conduct a program of domestic surveillance, Kennedy set a precedent that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and George W. Bush would follow.

Tim Weiner

#5. Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.

George Kennedy

#6. Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

L. Neil Smith

#7. But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

George Smathers

#8. Hey Lord ... Whatever I done ... Don't strike me blind for another couple ah minutes.

George Kennedy

#9. Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

#10. The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

George Smathers

#11. Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

George Kennedy

#13. What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.

John Adams

#14. 'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

Nina Easton

#15. My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

George Kennedy

#16. Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.

Edward Kennedy

#17. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

#18. There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.

George Mitchell

#19. A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

George Kennedy

#20. Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

George Smathers

#21. Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

George Smathers

#22. A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.

John F. Kennedy

#23. Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

George Will

#24. In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

D. James Kennedy

#25. Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

Edward Kennedy

#26. A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

Victor Davis Hanson

#27. No, I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

John Green

#28. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.

Molly Owens

#29. When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

George Kennedy

#30. In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Sandra Oh

#31. No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

Steve Rauschenberger

#32. I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

George Kennedy