Madison County Quotes

#1. Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

#2. Were there Madison County bridges or were they all trysts in tool sheds?

Rodney Ross

#3. There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary

Jane Austen

#4. No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

William Ruckelshaus

#5. How could I explain the sort of twisted fantasies I'd had to play out to Frank? Most of them I didn't even understand myself. Like being drenched in maple syrup and having acorns thrown at me by a guy wearing nothing but hiking boots.

Nicole Castle

#6. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Al Capone

#7. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

Clint Eastwood

#10. Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

#11. While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

James Nesbitt

#12. W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

Sam Walter Foss

#13. Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.

Bryant McGill

#14. All that I know is that he is sad in his heart ... that is the place where his sadness is. Right there. And I do not think that is ever very easy to deal with sadness in that part of the body.

Alexander McCall Smith