Lane Kirkland Quotes

#1. I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

Connie Stevens

#2. The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

Lane Kirkland

#3. The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.

Dacher Keltner

#4. We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

Lane Kirkland

#5. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Lane Kirkland

#6. Mamaw and Papaw ensured that I knew the basic rules of fighting: You never start a fight; you always end the fight if someone else starts it; and even though you never start a fight, it's maybe okay to start one if a man insults your family. This last rule was unspoken but clear.

J.D. Vance

#7. The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

Lane Kirkland

#9. Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

Josh Earnest

#10. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, - part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.

John Muir

#11. The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Lane Kirkland

#12. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Lane Kirkland

#13. The truth is, that I never care much for reading what one ought to read; I wish I did, but I cannot help it. And,

Thomas Hardy

#14. For this my good from them, was good for them.

Augustine Of Hippo

#15. We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lane Kirkland

#16. To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

Lane Kirkland

#17. The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lane Kirkland

#18. I find reality television to be so delectable.

Lizzy Caplan

#19. In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

Louis Kronenberger

#20. The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Lane Kirkland

#21. Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

Lane Kirkland