Quotes About Annie Oakley

#1. She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

Barack Obama

#2. CJ added more beer to her mug. "If I recall correctly, the last verbal directive we were given was 'don't shoot anyone' when we were in Hoganville. And I do believe I did not fire my weapon." She glanced over at Paige. "But our dear, sweet Paige Riley turned into Annie Oakley.

Gerri Hill

#3. Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

Deeanne Gist

#4. For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

Annie Oakley

#5. I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

Annie Oakley

#6. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

Annie Oakley

#7. I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

Michael Azerrad

#8. Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy.

Ken Hollings

#9. Is it a shark made of ice?" Hanoen asked. "Or a shark that lives in ice?

John Scalzi

#10. Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

Annie Oakley

#11. God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

Annie Oakley

#12. Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase

Alan Bradley

#13. [On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

Annie Oakley

#14. A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys ... And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.

Annie Oakley

#15. Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.

Cory Booker

#16. I ain't afraid to love a man ...

Annie Oakley

#17. I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

Sadie Jones

#18. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

Annie Oakley

#19. I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

Annie Oakley

#20. Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

Annie Oakley

#21. Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

Annie Oakley

#22. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.

Annie Oakley

#23. And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

Allen Toussaint

#24. common sense is embedded in common things

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. My mother ... was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

Annie Oakley