Rifle Quotes

#1. I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

Jon Meacham

#2. A German walked up to her, his rifle

Kristin Hannah

#3. I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

James Spader

#4. I have a talent for hurting things," Jack perches the rifle on his cocked hip, and it's so insufferably arrogant I want to shove him into the ball pit next to us and slash or furiously make out with him. "But we always knew that, didn't we?

Sara Wolf

#5. Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder."
"I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle."
"I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall."
"Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

Obert Skye

#6. When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads.

Erin Bowman

#7. I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

Jack Nicklaus

#8. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

Jay Johnstone

#9. Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed."
I write:
i know girls who say that about their dildos.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Charlayne is in front of me, holding a rifle identical to the one in my hand, raised to shoulder height and pointed at Kiernan, who's sitting on the bed. He looks more bored than afraid.

Rysa Walker

#11. 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

#12. She lifted a corner of the long coat she had wrapped around her rifle. 'This is Frank.' The girl had named her gun.

Lisa shook her head. 'Why Frank?'

Grace smiled. 'Because he's very direct.

James Litherland

#13. Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

Aron Bielski

#14. Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

Matthew Ridgway

#15. Cade separated the man from his rifle, his hostage and his life, in that order.

Christopher Farnsworth

#16. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.

Kelly Moran

#17. 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

#18. Sitka Charley started. There had been more than one shot, yet there was but one other rifle in the party. He gave a fleeting glance at the men who lay so quietly, smiled viciously at the wisdom of the trail, and hurried on to meet the Men of the Yukon.

Jack London

#19. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. 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

#21. For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
corner of it.

Carl Sandburg

#23. My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Gail Collins

#24. I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

Woody Guthrie

#25. We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

Michael Morpurgo

#26. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.

Jon Krakauer

#27. At best, us ladies are just a bunch of Mirandas with a slightly better wardrobe and at worst, we're a bunch of Magdas, aka Miranda's housekeeper, which means we're a bunch of nosy bitches who rifle through people's belongings and let them know they masterbate too much.

Phoebe Robinson

#28. If Grogssson's got the case, you might as well rifle the body, rob the place and draw a moustache on the corpse; he wouldn't mind.

G.S. Denning

#29. To wake in some dawn and see / As though down a rifle barrel, lined up / Like sights, the self that was, the self that is, and there / Far off but in range, completing that alignment, your fate.

Robert Penn Warren

#30. They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Bruce Springsteen

#31. Scarface, Boxer, and Rambo. She couldn't have gotten Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod? she wondered with a desperate kind of hysteria. Moe, Larry, and Curly? The Three Amigos? Rambo tugged a length of rope out of his hip pocket, handed his rifle to Boxer and grabbed her wrist.

Cindy Gerard

#32. No mourners," Jesper said as he tossed his rifle to Rotty. "No funerals," the rest of the Dregs murmured in reply.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

James Nicoll

#34. Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!

Tad Williams

#35. Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Don Lemon

#36. Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

Dale Earnhardt

#37. Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.

Zach Braff

#38. Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bret Harte

#39. I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic."

"I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope.

E.J. Fisch

#40. Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.

Sebastian Barry

#41. Back around the counter to fetch my rifle. Rifle, sidearm, knife, a couple of flash grenades. And one more thing, the most essential weapon in my arsenal: a heart full of rage.

Rick Yancey

#42. I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Joe Perry

#43. The judge sat that animal bareback like an indian and rode with his grip and his rifle perched on the withers and he looked about him with the greatest satisfaction in the world, as if everything had turned out just as he planned and the day could not have been finer.

Cormac McCarthy

#44. One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke. She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated.

Jack London

#45. If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Al Sharpton

#46. I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.

Boo Weekley

#47. There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.

Mark Leibovich

#48. The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers'
the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Edward Abbey

#49. She stepped out of reach. "Go put on a shirt and get your mind out of bed."
"Impossible with you around."
"Pretend I'm holding a rifle. In fact, pretend I have you in the crosshairs."
Janvier sighed, rubbing at a jaw shadowed by morning stubble. "I love it when you talk dirty.

Nalini Singh

#50. The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous markmen had them. Nevertheless,

Ambrose Bierce

#51. A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,

Ida B. Wells

#52. I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Paul Giamatti

#53. But a sniper rifle was a matter of pure mechanics. Brace it, breathe properly, squeeze rather than pull the trigger, and it was just a projection of will across distance.

Marcus Sakey

#54. Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?

Peter Heller

#55. In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.

Bill Maher

#56. You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

Bill Hicks

#57. Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

Carl Rogers

#58. More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

Theodore Roosevelt

#59. A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

Anthony Swofford

#60. Lieutenant J. C. Day's work was that he couldn't find fingerprints. Normally there would be prints on the barrel of the rifle and the stock.

Jim Bishop

#61. A man's duty? To be ready
with rifle or rood
to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Edward Abbey

#62. Well, they came the day after you did, but they made me angry, so I sent them away." Noah did not understand. "Sent them away?" Cord rejoined the conversation. "Ran them out of the house with a rifle." Noah couldn't have shown more astonishment if they'd said a mouse had killed a cat.

Ellen O'Connell

#63. Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Stephen Leacock

#64. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Sitting Bull

#65. Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Jeff Cooper

#66. A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Paul Yingling

#67. I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

Howard Dean

#68. The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

John J. Pershing

#69. The muse of invention handed me a rifle and I shot a white bear who sat down and said: Ah.

Vladimir Nabokov

#70. And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
"That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that ...

Eddie Izzard

#71. You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#72. I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

Jim Norton

#73. Our days are exactly the same. Shoot at the enemy. Hit some civilians. Apologize. Reload your rifle. Shoot again.

David Christopher Perez

#74. It's a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze.

John Green

#75. rifle, you best grab one now," the XO tells the civilians. I have the rifle from the drop ship,

Marko Kloos

#76. Legend says Gabriel's trumpet will sound the last judgment. I do the same sort of thing with my rifle.

Jack Coughlin

#77. Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#78. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Harvey Weinstein

#79. Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the rifle barrels of an approaching army.

Stephen Wright

#80. Walker's body wouldn't manifest the right reaction. He should be wanting to fight the threat or flee from it. Instead, his instincts were telling him to throw down the rifle, grab Rebecca, haul her into his arms, and kiss the hell out of her.

Jennifer Ashley

#81. Gay People can't do this. Women shouldn't be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you're attacking my rights.

Remi Kanazi

#82. Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Roy Blunt

#83. My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.

Florence King

#84. The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.

Edward Abbey

#85. Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

John Sherman Cooper

#86. Why do I put up with your shit?" "Because," Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, "I'm the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running.

James S.A. Corey

#87. A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Edward Abbey

#88. I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Jim Webb

#89. When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.

Tony Todd

#90. There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

Theodore Roosevelt

#91. Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

Zach Braff

#92. The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#93. Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms - two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine - the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter.

Joseph Conrad

#94. brought home half a dozen flappers, killed with the rifle if I had been out after large game, or with the revolver if I had merely been among the cattle, - each duck, in the latter case, representing the expenditure of a vast number of cartridges.

Theodore Roosevelt

#95. All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks.

Billy Graham

#96. mercy and justice are deadlier than any rifle or bayonet.

David Weber

#97. The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

George Orwell

#98. What was in the trunk?" I asked, and my eyes widened when he opened his coat and let me glimpse a big-ass rifle.
"I know these people," he said, his expression going hard. "We handle their insurance.

Kim Harrison

#99. There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

Charlie Daniels

#100. What do you think you're going to do with an antique rifle?"

"Probably shoot something with it.

E.J. Fisch