Ruark Quotes

#1. It was terrible of you," Shanna pouted, but her eyes danced as they turned askance to meet his. "I could have left, you know. I was that angry."
"I would have followed you," Ruark assured with a flash of white teeth. "You have my heart and my baby. You would not have escaped.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#2. Ruark held the door open for her to pass through. "The first I cannot deny, Shanna, for then I did not know of you. But you are my only love and shall remain for as long as I live." His eyes were serious and seemed to probe her being. "I

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#3. 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

Robert Ruark

#4. Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.

Michael Steger

#5. A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

Robert Ruark

#6. When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, Don't forget your waders.'

Robert Ruark

#7. Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

Robert Ruark

#8. If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.

Robert Ruark

#9. Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

Robert Ruark

#10. When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with
SOMETHING OF VALUE

Robert Ruark

#11. Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.

Deepak Chopra

#12. If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Robert Ruark

#13. Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he's ready, no matter how young he is, and you can't start too young to learn how to be careful.

Robert Ruark

#14. Shanna - Madam Beauchamp. You have provided the brightest moment in my day." As she stared, his lips moved further in soundless vow. "I love you.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#15. Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

Robert Ruark

#16. You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.

Robert Ruark

#17. your hands
humming hurricanes
of beauty.

Sonia Sanchez

#18. I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere ... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Annie Lennox

#19. Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Joey Skaggs

#20. Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.

Michael D. Evans

#21. I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.

Rachel Higginson

#22. I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Huston Smith

#23. The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Paul Westerberg

#24. Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

Michael S. Roth