Top 100 Quotes About Rifles
#1. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
[in contrast] Cricket had rules: one was not allowed to stamp on the head of another player and pass it off as enthusiasm.
Natasha Pulley
#2. The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.
Clint Smith
#4. Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,
a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
Malala Yousafzai
#6. The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him glad that this was going down in a rural area where people still had their heads screwed on right about personal defense.
Larry Correia
#7. I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle. The bridge went quiet.
James S.A. Corey
#8. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.
Eric Greitens
#9. AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.
Scott Simon
#10. I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.
Erik Larson
#11. It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. He liked to talk about the anatomy of racecars, motorcycles, hunting rifles, how things work, and she liked to listen. It was a mark of the distance between them that she listened so eagerly, the perennial miles, the weeks and months
Don DeLillo
#13. I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
#15. We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.
Albert Camus
#16. She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. "Maybe I like picket fences." "I don't know, maybe it's the way I met you but assault rifles and picket fences seem juxtapositioned.
Denise Grover Swank
#17. One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
Anton Chekhov
#18. California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.
Chuck Todd
#19. He was listed as right-handed. The army needed to know that because bolt-action sniper rifles are made for right-handers. Left-handed soldiers don't usually get assigned as snipers. Pigeonholing starts on day one in the military.
Lee Child
#20. I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
Anson Mount
#21. I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#22. Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Isoroku Yamamoto
#23. He declined to let us take our air rifles to the Landing (I had already begun to think of shooting Francis)
Harper Lee
#25. Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.
Henri Cole
#26. There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.
Theodore Roosevelt
#27. We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.
Barry Goldwater
#28. Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
#29. Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it
with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
Tom Peters
#30. The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
Karl Marx
#31. I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.
Liam Hemsworth
#32. I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
Phil Collins
#33. Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war."
"The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?
Rick Riordan
#34. We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.
Major Owens
#35. Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!
Winfield Scott
#36. Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
Bob Dylan
#37. Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.
Woody Allen
#38. Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.
Bobby Bare
#39. The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
#40. A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.
Jeff Cooper
#41. I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.
Joseph Mawle
#42. Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
Neil Kinnock
#44. I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#45. Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use.
Carl Rogers
#46. It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#48. In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised
George S. Patton
#49. Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd.
Elizabeth Wein
#50. Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue
Sheikh Abdullah
#51. Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.
Thom Yorke
#52. You think the only battles fought are done so with rifles, and the only wounds that kill draw blood. You think courage is loud, boisterous, and proud. Mrs. Warner, I don't think you have a clue as to what this memorial truly represents.
-Clay to Meg
Lorraine Heath
#53. Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.
Benjamin Percy
#54. The facade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with leadmarks oxidized upon the stone.
Cormac McCarthy
#55. Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
#56. (Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury
Lion, rifles
and stupidity.
Beryl Markham
#57. The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
Tom Clancy
#58. This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Shane Koyczan
#59. Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting ... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
Angelina Jolie
#60. The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.
John Sherman Cooper
#61. If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.
Steve Marmel
#62. It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.
Jeff Cooper
#63. One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
Anton Chekhov
#64. It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders.
George Takei
#65. Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.
Aron Bielski
#66. Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.
S.A. McAuley
#67. For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
Benito Mussolini
#68. Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
Martin McGuinness
#69. The NRA is right ... handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.
Josh Sugarmann
#70. If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
Clint Smith
#71. Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.
H. Rider Haggard
#72. I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.
Adrian McKinty
#73. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. Bullets they took from us, they took our rifles
Minerals they took, and comrades too:
But while our mouths have spittle in them
The whole country is still armed.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#75. Make no mistake. This is a war on rural America ... It is chilling to watch people who joined the military to defend American citizens point rifles on American soil at American citizens and women and children. A sniper rifle is not due process.
Matt Shea
#76. The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
Richard M. Nixon
#77. The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their horses cruelly, they drove them right in among the riflemen, and men were kicked, stamped upon and died beneath frantic hooves.
Walter Kaylin
#78. The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
John Steinbeck
#79. I don't get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It's such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range." She shrugged. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it.
Alan Dean Foster
#80. She covered his hand with hers over her abdomen. His was so much bigger than hers and had probably fired guns, rifles, and god knew what else, but right here, right now, his tenderness broke down her will as sure as any grenade.
Lisa Kessler
#81. Faye Elms didn't become a member of a unit called Red Rifles because she looked pretty holding one. But she was packing buckshot this time, and Orion had no intention of meeting his maker by a shotgun-wielding woman wearing a soft yellow summer dress.
R.R. Washburn
#82. Soon levees up and down the river were popping like buttons off a tight shirt. At Mounds Landing, Mississippi, a hundred black workers, kept at their posts by men with rifles, were swept to oblivion when a levee gave way. The coroner, for reasons unstated, recorded just two deaths.
Bill Bryson
#83. We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
#84. Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.
Bret Harte
#85. Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128
Donna Tartt
#86. Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.
Moss Hart
#87. You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.
Carrie Vaughn
#88. It is an astonishing thing how little the average man in Africa knows about the rifles he uses-it is but a very small exaggeration to say that all he really does know is that the bullet comes out of the end which has a hole in it!
John "Pondoro" Taylor
#89. The secret to life is to be a balloon
And fly.
Fly very high
Out of the range of needles and pins
Out of the range of BB guns rifles
FLY
Fly very very high, my Friends
And never stop soaring
Jose N. Harris
#90. I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.
Morgan Spurlock
#91. Two Rivers, craftsmen were revered. And their marksmen were the best the world knew. An elite group of Two Rivers men, armed with the new firing sticks men were calling rifles, served with the Aiel in their peacekeeping campaigns in Shara. It was the only place war was known in
Robert Jordan
#92. English you're speaking," Matheus said. "The language that sidles up to other languages in dark alleys, mugs them, then rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. It's the bitch-whore of languages and it owns the world. Suck on that, Rome boy.
Amy Fecteau
#93. raising her glass of ice tea, "here's to girls, their rifles, and law degrees.
Kathleen Brooks
#94. A man's duty? To be ready
with rifle or rood
to defend his home when the showdown comes.
Edward Abbey
#95. As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard. He had thought the possibilities of human silence were endless.
Nicole Krauss
#96. Suddenly,I could picture Tinker on the back of a horse somewhere: at the edge of the treeline under a towering sky ... at his college roommate's ranch, perhaps ... where rhey hunted deer with antique rifles and with dogs that were better bred than me.
Amor Towles
#97. Scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
Virginia Woolf
#98. We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
Andy Barrie
#99. A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.
William Lacy Clay Jr.
#100. As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
