Quotes About Celebrating Independence Day

#1. The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.

Lyn Nofziger

#2. Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Will Rogers

#4. The song is sung, the wine is spilled, the wench is pregnant. And this is not as dire as it seems, in truth.

George R R Martin

#5. To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.

Elias James Corey

#6. I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

Jon Ronson

#7. Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

Ridley Scott

#8. If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

Thomas Paine

#9. Parents don't care anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. Nobody else is important, no one else's suffering or joy matters, none of it is real.

Paula Hawkins

#10. I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

David Wilcock

#11. Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

Lev Grossman

#12. For a moment he [Doctor Pascal] thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild, satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.

Emile Zola