Best Calamity Jane Quotes & Sayings

But tell you true, I honestly didn't think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world's full of them. — J.D. Jordan

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain't no trouble of his what ain't trouble of mine, too. — J.D. Jordan

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. — Calamity Jane

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort. — Calamity Jane

Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self. — J.D. Jordan

I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever. — Emily Rose

We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin. — Gene Wolfe

Jeb didn't say nothing. Didn't smile none, neither. Didn't even move except for the color running right out of him. — J.D. Jordan

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. — Calamity Jane

I was the luckiest girl. Don't you think because I didn't have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn't no place I'd rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable rock. Because he was watching over me and loneliness was some far off thing, echoing off the Rock from other folks. Wasn't nothing could ruin it for me. — J.D. Jordan

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. — Calamity Jane

And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could've never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries out in the night and some long ago tangling of limbs. And about them betrayals done time and time again - by both of us - what led to me pointing the Green Man's rifle at the man what once loved me under the Green Man's stars. — J.D. Jordan

what I like and what I need's two different things. — J.D. Jordan

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes. — Calamity Jane

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. — Calamity Jane

No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn. — J.D. Jordan

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points. — Calamity Jane

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. — Calamity Jane

Ain't nothing scarier than someone with nothing. — J.D. Jordan

Ain't no good ever comes of it, if you ain't steering yourself. — J.D. Jordan

Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan. — J.D. Jordan

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be. — J.D. Jordan

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. — Calamity Jane

But wasn't time for what was. Was time to settle up the future. — J.D. Jordan

That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn't help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn't felt like that in a long while. — J.D. Jordan

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you? — Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall. — Calamity Jane

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded. — Calamity Jane

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. — Calamity Jane

Targets come big, he said. Time comes small. — J.D. Jordan

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. — Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. — Calamity Jane