Top 20 Hampden Quotes

#1. In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to

Kay Ryan

#2. Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.

Andy Kindler

#3. Since being a wee boy, I've wanted to be on the pitch at Hampden. I don't know why. I love all the international games and such but I've never been that partisan. But I've always wanted to stand on that pitch.

John Gordon Sinclair

#4. And if our love was a story book
We would meet on the very first page
The last chapter would be about
How I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You...

J. Hampden Jackson

#5. He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

#6. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Thomas Gray

#7. Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

Stacy Feiner

#8. Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

The Beatles

#9. What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions ...

Charles Hampden-Turner

#10. Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.

Donna Tartt

#11. Julie's cookery is actually improving," Paul wrote Charlie [his twin]. "I didn't quite believe it would, just between us, but it really is. It's simpler, more classical ... I envy her this chance. It would be such fun to be doing it at the same time with her.

Julia Child

#12. What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

John Hampden

#13. For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Nick Hornby

#14. The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

Steve McConnell

#15. Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action ... we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!

Timothy Pina

#16. I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

Stephen Colbert

#17. I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever; for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden.

Donna Tartt

#18. May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

John Hampden

#19. ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Billy Connolly

#20. The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Al Capp

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