Yankee Doodle Quotes

#1. I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

Ron Kovic

#2. I believe the average Southerner would rather be found singing "Yankee Doodle" floating on ice in the Arctic Ocean while eating whale blubber with a fingernail file than taking his rolls or biscuits or bread or cornbread other than hot. Hot

Patricia B. Mitchell

#3. I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

Ulysses S. Grant

#4. He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!

Patrick O'Brian

#5. New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [ ... ] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

Joseph C. Lincoln

#6. I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Dick Van Dyke

#7. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

Auliq Ice

#8. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick

#9. I cannot recognize Christianity in his (Nietzsche's) rants against the church, but I do recognize too much of myself.

John Mark Reynolds

#10. Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Ben Hecht

#11. But this kiss? It's ruined me. This is the type of kiss I never knew existed. It's like falling and flying, all in the same moment.

Leisa Rayven

#12. Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.

Barbara Minto

#13. When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Eddie Vedder