Dewoody Collection Quotes & Sayings

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs. — Phil Robertson

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. — Euripides

Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie. — James Baldwin

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. — Derek Bok

I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was ... New York. — Zach Condon

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs. — Phil Robertson

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her. — Michelle Hodkin

And I am always flattered," Rusty continued, "but I love my sister. Not in an 'I love my sister and I want to make out with her' way, that would be terrible and disturbing, but in an 'I love my sister, and I'm not going anywhere near the girl she likes' way. Be a big mess. Life is hard for me, with all my irresistible sexual magnetism. It's a real problem, almost as bad as the fact that my steps are now the number one crying spot in Sorry-in-the-Vale. I have to maintain control of the situation at all times or my life would devolve into a nonstop romantical frenzy". — Sarah Rees Brennan

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. — Charles Kuralt

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would. — John Sentamu

Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was. — Alice Sebold

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment. — Plutarch

There can never be surprises in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

In fact, mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads. — Bill Bryson