Knapsack Quotes

#1. PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.

Jules Verne

#3. I got mugged. And they got my knapsack with my comedy notebook in it. So if anybody see two cholos bombing at the Funny Bone chain, that would be them. Just give me a jingle.

Janeane Garofalo

#4. No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

Russell Smith

#5. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

Peggy McIntosh

#6. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

H.G.Wells

#7. Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

Horace Kephart

#9. Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."

Bill Moyers

#10. I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had.

Aspen Matis

#11. You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

Michelle Rodriguez

#14. Henry unpacked the car and loaded himself up with everything they'd brought, little bags and big ones, a string tote, a knapsack.
As he started up the driveway, his girlfriend said, "Do you have the wine, Hank?"
Whoever Hank was, he had it.

Melissa Bank

#15. After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

Manju Warrier

#16. Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. Sometimes ... we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Nigella Lawson

#18. There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

James Russell Lowell

#19. Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

Harsha Bhogle

#20. Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. For someone who was educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Mrs Obama can also plant garden bulbs without looking as if she is handling nuclear waste.

Matt Frei

#22. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Julius Nyerere