Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in praise of Robert Frost, 1963
- When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
- Dale Earnhardt
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter, 1810
- One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955), Meditations on Hunting
- When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Winner Take Nothing
- No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
- John Russell, Speech, Greenock, England
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|