Quotes About Postage Stamps

#1. The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Johann Hari

#2. Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

William Butler Yeats

#3. I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Josh Henderson

#4. I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Jerry Rice

#5. The strongest men who exist are always someone else's strength.

Saleem Sharma

#6. He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.

Henry Graff

#7. Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

George Bernard Shaw

#8. What were these animals then?"
"They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

Margaret Atwood

#9. The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.

Pat Buchanan

#10. Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

Tom Ford

#11. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

Steven Wright

#12. You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down ... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Aaron Copland

#13. The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Agnes Repplier

#14. I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

Kurt Voss

#15. My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#16. Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#17. Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Elizabeth Bishop

#18. Why are you here?" "Because you are.

Tarryn Fisher

#19. Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.

V.S. Naipaul

#20. If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

Anushka Sharma

#21. It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#22. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Abbie Hoffman

#23. I'm not adorable," Wade protested. "I am manly and grizzled and have no emotions. None.

Molly Harper

#24. I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

Peter Webber

#25. He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

Tim Flowers

#26. Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

Thomas Mallon

#27. Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

Marcel Proust

#28. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

John Steinbeck

#29. The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

Johann Hari

#30. I get a lot of fan mail from girls. It's interesting because it's not just the U.S. - you get things from people all over the world. They send these postage stamps and you're like, 'Where do you live?' It's crazy. I'll get letters from the troops, too.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#31. I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

Sanaa Lathan

#32. In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

Michael R. French