Davy Crockett Quotes

It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.

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• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • History
  • Politics

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Person
  • Feel
  • Balance

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Popular

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Teacher
  • Politics
  • Massage

• Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.

  

  Emmitt Smith
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Death
  • Fate

• It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.

  

  Davy Crockett
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