Top 34 George Sr Quotes
#1. To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'
Barbara Bush
#3. It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
Robert Genn
#6. Because if someone owed me several thousand, and then stole from my house, and then I found out he had the money and didn't pay me back, I'd be pretty pissed," Hackett said.
E.C. Diskin
#7. Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.
Lou Gerstner
#9. For the sentimentalism and emotionalism which have infested our country, we should substitute hard common sense. Pacific habits do not insure peace or immunity from national insult and aggression.
Douglas MacArthur
#10. I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
Eddie Vedder
#11. Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.
Chuck Sambuchino
#13. Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
George Allen, Sr.
#14. Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
George Allen, Sr.
#15. The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
George Allen, Sr.
#16. Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson
#17. More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#18. Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?
Johnny Bench
#20. My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
E. J. Holub
#21. People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.
Noam Chomsky
#22. Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen, Sr.
#23. One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
George Allen, Sr.
#24. The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#25. Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
George Allen, Sr.
#26. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.
Erik Larson
#27. Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
George Allen, Sr.
#28. By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
Kate Forsyth
#29. Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle
#30. George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#31. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
George Allen, Sr.
#34. Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
George Allen, Sr.
