Top 100 Jep Robertson Quotes
#1. Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#2. Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.
Phil Robertson
#3. The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,
Pat Robertson
#4. Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body
and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands
that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
Frederick William Robertson
#5. There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.
Robertson Davies
#6. Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?
Edward W. Robertson
#8. The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.
Si Robertson
#10. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
John McCain
#11. But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
Oscar Robertson
#12. Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
Robbie Robertson
#14. Red?" I asked.
"I've decided I'm going to call you Red from now on."
"All right, I'll bite - no pun intended. Why?"
He snickered in a very masculine way and lowered his voice. "'Cause I like the idea of the big bad wolf visiting you and Grandma.
Linda Robertson
#15. A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.
Si Robertson
#16. If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God's help, you can accomplish anything.
Phil Robertson
#17. The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism ...
Pat Robertson
#18. 26"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Phil Robertson
#19. I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.
Phil Robertson
#20. He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
Robertson Davies
#21. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#22. What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.
Robertson Davies
#23. In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it.
Robin Robertson
#24. Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick William Robertson
#25. History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds and bodies of human beings.
Priscilla Smith Robertson
#27. There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B.W. Powe
#28. I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events ... were the judgments of God.
Richard Land
#29. Where I come from your truck is a reflection of who you are.
Jase Robertson
#30. I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.
Kathleen Robertson
#31. My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
Britt Robertson
#32. False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.
Frederick William Robertson
#33. When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an event I'll wear camouflage. It depends what kind of mood I'm in.
Si Robertson
#34. You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
#35. If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
Robertson Davies
#36. You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
Si Robertson
#37. Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
#38. I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
Oscar Robertson
#40. To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible
Pat Robertson
#41. Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.
Robertson Davies
#42. What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made of them.
Frederick William Robertson
#43. Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander.
Pat Robertson
#44. I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.
Britt Robertson
#45. I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.
Ed Robertson
#46. The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Robertson Davies
#47. Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?
Robertson Davies
#48. My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.
Robbie Robertson
#50. It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
Ben Robertson
#51. When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.
Robbie Robertson
#52. I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.
Pat Robertson
#53. The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
Robertson Davies
#54. Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
Julian Robertson
#55. We are made of star material, and every atom of matter on Earth originated in the core of a star.
Margaret Robertson
#56. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#58. We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
William Robertson Smith
#59. My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?
Kay Robertson
#60. There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
Robertson Davies
#61. I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
Oscar Robertson
#62. I'm always nervous about singing ... always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
Ed Robertson
#63. It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
#64. It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.
Phil Robertson
#65. He decided that brains were made of all the parts of the body that the other organs had rejected.
Edward W. Robertson
#66. You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways.
Jase Robertson
#67. It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.
David Robertson
#68. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
#69. And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson
#70. It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
Si Robertson
#71. We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that.
Phil Robertson
#72. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Robbie Robertson
#73. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson
#74. The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Robertson Davies
#75. I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
Robbie Robertson
#76. No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
Robertson Davies
#77. I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
Oscar Robertson
#78. But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
Pat Robertson
#79. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.
Robertson Davies
#80. You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
Robertson Davies
#81. The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is ... that's the coolest thing ever.
Robbie Robertson
#82. When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'
Robbie Robertson
#83. I'm as much of a homophobe as Jesus was. The people who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.
Phil Robertson
#84. As you know, a head is a deal heavier than it looks. That is one reason you do not want to drop it anywhere near your feet.
Claire Robertson
#85. Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.
Pat Robertson
#87. You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you've got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.
Pat Robertson
#88. She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
Robertson Davies
#89. I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Pat Robertson
#90. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
#91. I represent Jesus on this earth and he represents me in heaven.
Jase Robertson
#92. I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.
Britt Robertson
#93. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
Si Robertson
#94. Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.
J.M. Robertson
#95. 'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.
Britt Robertson
#96. He [Piers] might have been a goofy flake, but he was, in the end, her goofy flake, and she loved him as much as she could.
Craig Robertson
#97. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Robertson Davies
#99. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
Pat Robertson
#100. You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you
take a gun and shoot him.
Pat Robertson
