Quotes About Johnny Appleseed

#1. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

Douglas Brinkley

#4. Johnny Appleseed was revered . he was ... an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

Michael Pollan

#5. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

Don McLean

#7. Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

Vikki Wakefield

#8. Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

Johnny Appleseed

#9. Pray as you can, not as you can't.

Johnny Appleseed

#10. The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Martin Gardner

#11. Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.

Emile Coue

#12. In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

Adele Exarchopoulos

#13. But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.

Tracy Chevalier

#14. I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that I believe you think.

Neil Gaiman

#15. The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

Johnny Appleseed

#16. New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

Paul Reiser