I Would Rather Die On My Feet Quotes

#1. I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

Emiliano Zapata

#2. I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees

Emiliano Zapata

#3. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.

Joseph Fink

#4. It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

#5. I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

Amy Plum

#6. Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Etheridge Knight

#7. I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Myron, all six feet of super cuteness, comes forward. He smiles and I almost die, because he has one adorable dimple. Instead of getting embarrassed about his first name, he offers his hand and says, "Call me McDaniel.

Courtney Brandt

#9. It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference.

Euripides

#10. Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

Tim McCarver

#12. M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!"
"Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.

Georgette Heyer

#13. I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees!

George Washington

#14. You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

Odetta

#15. We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil.

Amy Plum

#16. You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Ray Bradbury