Fiorello H Laguardia Quotes & Sayings

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. — Kate Baldwin

I don't really have a fear of doctors, in the sense that they're going to do something bad to me. I don't have a fear of them eating me, or a fear of needles, or anything like that. I have a fear that I'm feeling completely fine, everything's good, and then when I go there, he's going to tell me something horrible. — Rob Zombie

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. — Fiorello LaGuardia

He cocked his head to the side."Anything else your allergic to?"
"Besides penicillin and guys who bust into my apartment? No. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I produced a fulsome sermon. When the appointed Sunday arrived, I used all of my best grooming skills. I picked the cat hairs off my most expensive suit, smoothed my hair, and put a Band-aid on the thumb I had chewed while working overtime on my sermon. Once I met the delegation at church I did my best to dazzle them, and after the service was over we sat for almost two hours in a Sunday School room as I answered question after question about my history, my beliefs, my weaknesses, and my strengths. One man on the committee noticed the Band-aid on my thumb. "What did you do to yourself?" he asked sympathetically. "I cut it while I was cooking, "I lied. — Barbara Brown Taylor

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. — Fiorello LaGuardia

I look into his gray-blue dying eyes. We're staring at each other, showing each other our last looks, the faces we'll take with us into eternity, and I'm thinking how I wish I knew him better, how I wish we'd had a life together, wishing my father wasn't such a complete and utter goddamn mystery to me ... — Daniel Wallace

A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here. — Ian Svenonius

My name," I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. "Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but as you did just now. As if I am the only man in the world who can satisfy you.
~Liam C. — J.J. McAvoy

... it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms — Alasdair MacIntyre

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend. — Alber Elbaz