Knocking On Military Door Quotes

#1. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Robert Burns

#2. On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

Edward Conlon

#3. An admitted insensibility or immorality simplifies life as much as does easy virtue; it converts reproachable actions, for which one no longer need seek any excuse, into a duty imposed by sincerity.

Marcel Proust

#4. My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

Orel Hershiser

#5. Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

Jeff Lindsay

#6. That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

Michael J. Fox

#7. Labor is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

W.B.Yeats

#8. The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

George H. W. Bush

#9. He'd replace the window, but the kid was sleeping in his room from now until she was thirty and married to a huge guy with ninja skills.

Christopher Moore

#10. I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

Francesca Lia Block

#11. It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

Tommy Hilfiger

#13. Excuse the mess, but we live here.

Roseanne Barr

#14. No alaram clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

Kyrie Irving

#15. The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.

Tom Stoppard