Top 100 Quotes About Garfield
#1. Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
Jim Davis
#2. I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me ...
Whoopi Goldberg
#3. Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
Jim Cooper
#4. Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.
Candice Millard
#6. If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.
Sarah Vowell
#7. Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield
Jim Davis
#8. There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!
Garfield, the cat.
Jim Davis
#9. In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In
Candice Millard
#10. If I could play any superhero ... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it.
Taron Egerton
#11. I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
Jim Davis
#12. I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.
Sunil Gavaskar
#13. Garfield took Odie's paw. "Old pal, if anything happens to us, there's one thing you should know."
"It's going to happen to you first.
Jim Kraft
#14. I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
Marie Windsor
#15. I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
Jack Klugman
#16. Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you!
Garfield: Feed me.
Jim Davis
#17. I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.
Chris Pratt
#18. I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
Matt Groening
#19. I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
Andrew Buchan
#20. Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".
Jefferson Davis
#21. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
Jeff Greenfield
#22. Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880 ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.
Sarah Vowell
#23. Although Garfield was dangerously ill, the idea of taking him to a hospital was never considered. Hospitals were only for people who had nowhere else to go. "No sick or injured person who could possibly be nursed at home or in a medical man's private residence,
Candice Millard
#24. Garfield were tasked with disentangling and arranging the fairy lights on the tree and, as she had requested, Rosamunde was granted the honour of placing the charmingly
Rebecca Boxall
#25. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard
#26. My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
Herbert Hoover
#27. You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
#31. I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.
Andrew Garfield
#33. At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
James A. Garfield
#34. The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
#35. The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.
Jay L. Garfield
#37. He was horribly neglected, forgotten, pushed aside. It was almost as if Hollywood was so ashamed of what was done to him that they almost made him disappear.
Julie Garfield
#38. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
#39. The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
#40. Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
Charles Garfield
#41. Bleeding, idleness and mist, he murmured in an unusual mood of poetry.
It's like life, isn't it...
First the wound, then the resting, and then the uncertainty of it all.
Leon Garfield
#43. James 4:14New King James Version (NKJV)
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Garfield Whyte
#46. True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
James A. Garfield
#47. Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. Garfield
#49. I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
John Garfield
#50. The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.
Garfield Sobers
#51. The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story.
Steve Garfield
#52. I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
James A. Garfield
#53. There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.
John Garfield
#54. I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.
Andrew Garfield
#55. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.
James A. Garfield
#56. The world is run by ordinary People, so fools and geniuses will always be out of place.
Garfield Ellis
#57. Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.
Patricia Garfield
#58. Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.
Brian Garfield
#59. Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
#60. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
#61. For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
James A. Garfield
#63. Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.
Bob Garfield
#64. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
Andrew Garfield
#65. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield
#67. To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.
Jay L. Garfield
#68. Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
James A. Garfield
#69. The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
#70. Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
James A. Garfield
#71. We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
James A. Garfield
#73. Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
#74. Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield
#75. The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
Charles Garfield
#76. I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
Andrew Garfield
#77. We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
James A. Garfield
#78. Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
#80. I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
John Garfield
#81. I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
Andrew Garfield
#82. Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
#83. I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better - we'd have interracial bisexuality!
Andrew Garfield
#84. I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.
Andrew Garfield
#85. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
#86. Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
Andrew Garfield
#87. When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
#89. If you are patient ... and wait long enough ... Nothing will happen
Jim Davis
#90. Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.
Andrew Garfield
#91. I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.
Andrew Garfield
#92. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield
#93. It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
#94. In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best.
Garfield Sobers
#95. I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.
Garfield Sobers
#96. We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future.
James A. Garfield
#97. I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.
Jay L. Garfield
#98. Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
#99. We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
James A. Garfield
#100. In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,
the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.
James A. Garfield
