Gamecock Quotes & Sayings

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. — James A. Michener

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper

Sweet and geeky Jeff, lover of games, knew how to move. — Chloe Neill

Life is what we are alive to. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much. — Emily Giffin

Fighting is in my very bones. I don't have any fancy, noble reason like anger at my fate. I'm just like a gamecock that launches itself into battle after meaningless battle. I like fighting. That's why I can't stop. — Nahoko Uehashi

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular. — Dori Hillestad Butler

The gamecock proudly stepped into the slaughterhouse. — Toba Beta

What a cute man! Hey, I may be pregnant, but I can still see! — Marie Osmond

Then there was Micah Jenkins, the Captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom danger acted like wine. In action he was a perfect gamecock. — Theodore Roosevelt

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. — Daniel Kahneman

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, 'I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls. — Annie Dillard

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock. — Flannery O'Connor

From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there. — Gretel Ehrlich