Hold It Down For My Man Quotes

#1. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Barack Obama

#2. My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

George Washington Carver

#3. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

John Cassian

#4. Damn it, Mariel," Kieran growled and spun her around to face him once more. "Ye belong to me."
Her heart skipped a beat. He wanted her. Mariel wrenched her arm from his hold but did not back down from the heat of his stare. "Then be a man and take what's yours.

Madeline Martin

#5. The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.

Jeremy Rifkin

#6. If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

Martin Buber

#7. I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

Takeo Spikes

#8. The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

John Steinbeck

#9. To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Booker T. Washington

#10. It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

John Yoo

#11. The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He'd never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

Bill Dedman

#13. These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Mona Simpson

#14. Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything.

Ann Leckie

#15. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."

God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.

The Skit Guys

#16. She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love,

Victor Hugo

#18. A man in a green truck lays on his horn to my left, as if noise will magically part the congested freeway. I hold back the urge to roll down my window and remind him that he's not Moses and magic does not exist.

Krista Ritchie

#19. He laughed and tugged me down in a kiss. Then, lips still close enough to feel them tickle mine, he said, "You know this is it for me, right?You're it. First and last."
I looked up and met his gaze. "Same for me. First and last.

Kelley Armstrong

#20. Man ain't happy till he kills everything in his path and cuts down everything that grows. He sees something wild and beautiful and wants to hold it down and stab it, punish it 'cause it's wild. Beauty draws him to it, and then he kills it.

Neil Gaiman

#21. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

#22. He did not like his new pet name.

Nicole Conway

#23. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,

Scott Hildreth

#24. Just in case this is the last time we hold hands, let's really hold hands. Because a motorcycle or a car can kill us now, or I might see the real man of my dreams down the street and leave you or you might see the real woman of your dreams and leave me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

Marvin J. Ashton

#26. and hit play on his cassette tape.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#27. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

#28. As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

Rhod Gilbert