Decatur Quotes & Sayings

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery. — Robert Klein

My child, My love and my regret, as you were when I first laid eyes on you, a tiny old man who hadn't the time to brush off his ancient expression, naked and misshapen in the nurse's arms. — Nicole Krauss

My country, right or wrong, but still my country. — Stephen Decatur

Where can we take no the product, but the idea? — Kevin Plank

After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all.
'You want to do what?' Diane would say.
But really, who wouldn't? — Mike Brown

All the best pubs are built on a hill, so you can slope in and roll out. — Benny Bellamacina

All music comes from God. — Johnny Cash

We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that's great. Everybody loves life in its mundane, daily aspects. It's what makes us feel secure. But I also start to go numb a little bit and I don't see what's around me. So I put myself in a new situation and suddenly I'm really seeing the person next to me, hearing music, and I'm smelling, and I can't help but want to write it down. — Dorianne Laux

It is part of a sailor's life to die well. — Stephen Decatur

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere. — Emily Saliers

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. — Dan Lipinski

Nicole Powell of Decatur, Georgia, was off-limits to hot cowboy lawyers. There was no way in hell she was going to return home with her tail between her legs all because she'd let him put HIS there. — Victoria Vane

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later - all betrayed, or traitors."
"I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath. — Cassandra Clare

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one. — Woody Allen

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?" Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.

"One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling." Jack Creamer, aged ten. — Irvin Anthony

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion. — Donald Tusk

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated. — Anna Deavere Smith

Yet, to the wigwam audience in Decatur, Lincoln presented a strange figure. He didn't seem euphoric, or triumphant, or even pleased. To the contrary, said a man named Johnson, observing from the convention floor, "I then thought him one of the most diffident and worst plagued men I ever saw. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer. — Ellsworth Kelly

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth. — Eileen Granfors

You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit. — Stephen Decatur

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area. — Keri Hilson

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur

It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois. — Neil Gaiman

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely. — Robert Klein