Quotes About Prepositions

#1. TEXAN: "Where are you from?" HARVARD STUDENT: "I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions." TEXAN: "OK, where are you from, jackass?" - Variation on an old joke

Ammon Shea

#2. Tables of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Bonjour, France! Chapter 2 Numbers and Gender Chapter 3 Plural Forms of Nouns Chapter 4 Pronouns Chapter 5 Verbs Chapter 6 Prepositions Chapter 7 Useful Expressions Preview Of'Spanish For Beginners' Check Out My Other Books Conclusion

Manuel De Cortes

#3. English loves to stay out all night dancing with other languages, all decked out in sparkling prepositions and irregular verbs. It is unruly and will not obey - just when you think you have it in hand, it lets down its hair along with a hundred nonsensical exceptions.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

Lauren Willig

#5. For example, there is an old grammarian's saw about how a sentence can end in five prepositions. Daddy trudges upstairs to Junior's bedroom to read him a bedtime story. Junior spots the book, scowls, and asks, Daddy, what did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?

Steven Pinker

#6. Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

Danny Meyer

#7. On verge of going apostrophic, taking foxglove, myrrh, mare's milk cure, shedding articles, shredding conjunctions, but can't shake prepositions.

Kate Campbell

#8. Ah! I--to you, Petrovitch, this--" It must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever.

Nikolai Gogol

#9. Prepositions are painful, articles are arduous, adjectives are wild overachievements.

Isaac Marion

#10. do not receive the actions, but stand after prepositions. Thus,

Sam An Teng

#11. I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.

Carol S. Dweck

#12. They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

Jasper Fforde

#13. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper

#14. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#15. Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

Israel Shamir

#16. I want you to feel what I'm feeling, Bianca. I want you to feel this uncontrollable need. I can't stand the thought that you're indifferent to me.

R.K. Lilley

#17. A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

Berton Braley

#18. We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Anthony Kiedis

#19. We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Tony Snow

#20. This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

Winston S. Churchill

#21. But you are very good at passion. And if you have enough passion, you can almost learn to do anything well.

Tarryn Fisher

#22. English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

#23. If is a very big preposition.

John Major