Boykin Quotes & Sayings

Women
wives and mothers
are the same everywhere. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American. — John F. Kerry

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I am always on the women's side. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate. — Donald Rumsfeld

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

She died praying that she might die. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Warrior actions are derived from the warrior soul. The best know it and nurture it. And once you have it, it never leaves. The warrior soul does not weaken. Long after the body has broken down, the soul stands tall. — William G. Boykin

Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to. — William G. Boykin

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God. — William G. Boykin

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates [ ... ] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him. — Keith Boykin

Is anything worth it? — Mary Boykin Chesnut

We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate ... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Kevin Freeman has been warning America's leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides the evidence in his book Secret Weapon. Every American needs to understand how our financial markets have been manipulated by people who want to destroy the nation and how they can do even greater damage in the future. This book is a critical read for everyone. — William G. Boykin

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol. — William G. Boykin

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world. — Nina Totenberg

The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan. — William G. Boykin

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy. — William G. Boykin

There is no greater threat to America than Islam. — William G. Boykin

Well, they did a damn good job; there's no way I'll — Kim Boykin

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? — Mary Boykin Chesnut

You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond. — Kim Boykin

I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read. — Kim Boykin

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

If there is no God, there is no hope. — William G. Boykin

It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them. — Keith Boykin

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world. — William G. Boykin

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Threatened men live long. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation. — William G. Boykin

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this. — William G. Boykin

There is no slave, after all, like a wife ... Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves. — Mary Boykin Chesnut