Quotes About Waco

#1. This grown man who now phones his father to say, Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy so long, I'd throw stones at it.

David Sedaris

#2. I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Ann Richards

#3. Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#4. They might play Extinctathon, or one of the others. Three-Dimensional Waco, Barbarian Stomp, Kwiktime Osama. They all used parallel strategies: you had to see where you were headed before you got there, but

Margaret Atwood

#5. Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Steve Stockman

#6. I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco ...

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

Laozi

#8. Settled for a blooming redhead from Waco, Takes-us, name of Molly Bea Archer, carefully cut her out of the pack and trundled her, tipsy and willing, back to the Busted Flush.

John D. MacDonald

#9. I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Maya Angelou

#10. The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.

C.L. Bevill

#11. If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.

Timothy McVeigh

#12. Give until it hurts.

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

#13. Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

Jim Davis

#14. And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.

Marya Hornbacher

#15. Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

Jackie Stewart

#16. FBI slaughter of the innocents at Waco was a model Jacobin enterprise.

Gore Vidal

#17. In April 1933, Willie's mother, Myrle, gave birth to him in a manger somewhere along the old highway between Waco & Dallas. There were angels in attendance that night. Some of them, no doubt, flying too close to the ground:

Kinky Friedman

#18. I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

Jesse Plemons

#19. I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

James Bovard

#20. The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.

Edward Gibbon

#21. Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

Eduard Limonov

#22. An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden

#23. I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

Dylan Moran

#24. People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Garth Stein

#25. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.

Marie Rutkoski