Lawton Quotes

#1. I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.

Andy Serkis

#2. Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

George Tahdooahnippah

#3. We could skip the mistletoe...."
Lilah was afraid if she let Sam Lawton kiss her, it might end up as a lot more. Her bed was up those stairs. Maybe they would make it to the bed.

Mary J. Williams

#4. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#5. We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

Dan Webster

#6. If you're not having fun you have the design wrong

Geoff Lawton

#7. All the world's problems can be solved in a garden.

Geoff Lawton

#8. To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.

Lawton Chiles

#9. Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they're there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

Ian Lawton

#10. Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

J. F. Lawton

#11. Time does not die; only people.

J. F. Lawton

#12. You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

Geoff Lawton

#13. The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

J. F. Lawton

#14. The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Lawton Chiles

#15. If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.

Stephanie Lawton

#16. The only reason why I get jealous is because remember we started off as friends too.

Josh Lawton

#17. We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.

Stephanie Lawton

#18. Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

Geoff Lawton

#19. At that moment I knew without a doubt that God himself was speaking to me. He cared. He was there. He came to help even when I could not call out loud or explain my fear in words.

Catherine Lawton

#20. Even monkeys fall out of trees.

J. F. Lawton

#21. Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

Geoff Lawton

#22. You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.

Lawton Chiles

#23. It's easy to clean up when you got money.

J. F. Lawton

#24. The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

J. Lawton Collins

#25. Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.

Stephanie Lawton

#26. People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

J. F. Lawton

#27. You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

J. F. Lawton

#28. Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.

J. F. Lawton

#29. We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.

Stephanie Lawton

#30. I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

Lawton Chiles

#31. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Lawton Chiles

#32. We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

J. F. Lawton

#33. I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

J. F. Lawton

#34. No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

J. Lawton Collins

#35. Be kind today ... to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

Ian Lawton