Quotes About Paul Revere

#1. To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

Mae West

#2. Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

Bill Maher

#3. There is your best path, if you can get on it and direct it as best you can. The direction it may take yet is not in your power: but what sort of man walks that path, when you are a man, that you can decide.

C.J. Cherryh

#4. In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Rowan Atkinson

#5. Does anyone remember the name of Paul Revere's horse?

Joe Jackson

#6. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.

John M. Murrin

#7. 1 if by land, 2 if by sea.

Paul Revere

#8. In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Paul Revere

#9. No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

Paul Revere

#10. You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Sarah Palin

#11. The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Dean Smith

#12. The British are coming.

Paul Revere

#13. He have a modified shrug that tilted one shoulder forward,

Faith Hunter

#14. One if by land, two if by sea.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#15. The great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use" ('God in Search of Man' p34)

Paul F Herring

#16. The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Paul Revere

#17. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

#18. To arms, to arms! The British are coming, the British are coming!

Paul Revere

#19. Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#20. The macarons are coming!" Souse shouted, like an epicurean Paul Revere.

Stephanie Clifford

#21. If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Alec Ross

#22. Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#23. In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

Paul Revere

#24. Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often been compared to that of Sippie Wallace and Janis Joplin, amongst others.

Sherman Alexie

#25. There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

Paul Revere