Top 20 Yokel Quotes
#1. Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".
Will Rogers
#2. People keep saying, "God is in the details". He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.
Christopher Hitchens
#3. Will Rogers ... used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
a newspaper and pretend I'm an intellectual making fun of the yokels
running the government.
Mort Sahl
#4. He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel
he hated it with what he hoped was his soul.
Barry Lyga
#5. A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#6. A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
Alan Watts
#7. the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.
Francis Wheen
#8. Yeah, five. Most families out there have lots of kids. I'd have lots if I could." "Oh, really?" Maxon's eyebrows were raised.
Kiera Cass
#9. It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?
Philip Roth
#10. You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.
Brent Musburger
#11. I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
Sakshi Tanwar
#12. I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.
Charles Bukowski
#13. If I lose you, I lose everything. You are the only goodness in my world.
Sylvain Reynard
#14. I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when explanations were impossible.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you.
Baz Luhrmann
#16. The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution of
perpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and their
families to get the justice they deserve.
Oche Otorkpa
#18. Hey, as you leave, Qhuinn wanted to say, will you do me a favor? I think my left ventricle is on the floor, so don't step on it as you pull out? Thanks. Great.
J.R. Ward
#19. Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#20. I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
John Lennon