Piney Quotes

#1. You don't want me to end up like you. I have to tell you, that's always been kind of weird to me. I hope I end up like you. In fact, that's the one goal that I'm really sure about. I want to be as much like you as possible.
- Tree to Piney, in one of their father-son talks.

Pamela Morsi

#2. By now, all three Brannick women - all four, if you counted Mom - were staring at me. Man, what had that piney-tasting stuff been? The Brannick version of Red Bull?

Rachel Hawkins

#3. Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.

Lee Child

#4. Mercy, but he smelled good. All piney and musky and manly. There should be a law.

Denise Hunter

#5. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. Listening to them, I imagine myself a gorgeous stubborn singer, traveling the world with hope and a guitar, turning as rough and piney as a Laurentian forest.

Fanny Britt

#7. The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

George Jones

#8. My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Emma Bunton

#9. Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.

Julie King

#10. The smell of rosin was strong. It reminded her of Christmas wreaths and red glass ornaments. It was a completely different world, a completely different season, than just a few steps away at the lake.

Sarah Addison Allen

#11. God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#12. Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.

Joan D. Vinge

#13. I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

Etgar Keret

#14. I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written - it's a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.

Kim Wright

#15. No matter where you go in East Texas, 'Deep' East Texas is always about twenty miles further in than wherever you are.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#16. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Ray Bradbury

#17. P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#18. There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#19. The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

Devon Sawa

#20. Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Brett Hull

#21. But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#22. The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#23. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg

#24. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt