Jimmie Davis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
-
Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
-
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
-
When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
-
For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
-
I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
-
The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.
-
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
-
We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
-
The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
-
Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
-
I am left to defend the 'dead' Constitution.
-
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
-
Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
-
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
-
I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
-
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
-
There is nothing wrong being a house husband, and I do believe there is something right about it.
-
I've always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it's the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I've gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.
-
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
-
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
-
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
-
I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.
-
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
