Milkman's Quotes

#1. When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.

Clive Sinclair

#2. Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

Georges Bidault

#4. [There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#5. In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman.

Charles Dickens

#6. Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Winston Churchill

#7. This was not before doctors, but in Turkey they hadn't gotten around to claiming the bone business yet; milkmen still were in charge of bones, the logic being that since milk was so good for bones, who would know more about borken bones than a milkman?

William Goldman

#8. Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

Jodi Sweetin

#9. Who do you look like?" I laugh.

"No one. My father used to joke that my mother must have had an affair with the milkman.

Amy Ewing

#10. We are suspended in language.

Niels Bohr

#11. I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

Alan Dale

#12. I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Christina Aguilera

#13. As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Adam Michnik

#14. Thank God for unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

#15. Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

H.L. Mencken

#16. After a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Wallace Stevens

#17. As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.

James Berryman

#18. I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"!

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music ...

Frank Loesser

#20. If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

Alex Ferguson

#21. My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

Karl Malden

#22. I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

Randy Newman

#23. The Uprighters called them names and promised them an eternity of agony in the next world for their eagerness to be comfortable in this one. But like Shmul S, the intestine-tied milkman, the Slouchers couldn't give a shit.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Toni Morrison

#25. I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

Gerard Way

#26. Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Christopher Morley

#27. Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

Winston Churchill

#28. I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

Simon McBurney

#29. One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

Winston Churchill

#30. The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.

Nenia Campbell

#31. Looking at Milkman in those nighttime talks, they yearned for something. Some word from him that would rekindle the dream and stop the death they were dying.

Toni Morrison

#32. Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.

Toni Morrison

#33. Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

Rick Riordan