Gammon Quotes & Sayings

Come here my fattin' up girlfriend and give me some kissin'. — Sherry Gammon

Dashed if I don't think he's begun to get queer in his attic! Well, what I mean is, hubble-bubble! I don't set up as one of these clever coves, but I've got more sense in my knowledge-box than to say such an addle-brained thing as that! Seems to me it don't make a ha'porth of difference whether you keep the dashed mill, or whether you don't, because that's where all your gingerbread came from, whichever way you look at it. And don't you tell me it's repugnant to him to have you coming down with the derbies, because all I've got to say to that is, Gammon! — Georgette Heyer

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it. — Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

MAke sure she can handle a gun, please."
I whacked him on the arm.
"Hmm, did a butterfly just land on me? — Sherry Gammon

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. — Oliver Goldsmith

While the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the authors of the Confederate Constitution proudly used the term no less than ten times. — C.L. Gammon

While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward. — Chris Avellone

what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1) — Stephen A. Gammon

It is sometimes easier to overcome our defeats than it is to overcome our victories. — C.L. Gammon

The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf. — Vijay Singh

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic") — Roz Savage

Please don't hurt me. When you're tired of me, just let me know. — Sherry Gammon

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it. — Paul O'Grady

I'm a mean, cruel person who doesn't deserve love. — Sherry Gammon

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time. — Thomas Piketty

The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken. These men desired desperately to repair it. — C.L. Gammon

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!! — Stephen King

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon. — Steve Coogan

Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. — Charles Dickens

Don't get old; there is no future in it. — C.L. Gammon

I say, White-Jacket, d'ye mind me? there never was a very great man yet who spent all his life inland. A snuff of the sea, my boy, is inspiration; and having been once out of sight of land, has been the making of many a true poet and the blasting of many pretenders; for, d'ye see, there's no gammon about the ocean; it knocks the false keel right off a pretender's bows; it tells him just what he is, and makes him feel it, too. A sailor's life, I say, is the thing to bring us mortals out. What does the blessed Bible say? Don't it say that we main-top-men alone see the marvellous sights and wonders? Don't deny the blessed Bible, now! don't do it! How it rocks up here, my boy!" holding on to a shroud; "but it only proves what I've been saying - the sea is the place to cradle genius! Heave and fall, old sea! — Herman Melville

Caress me sister wind
and stop this hate. — A.P. Sweet

Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan. — Joseph Jacobs

When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags. — Sherry Gammon

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. — Robert Frost

I'm not an Uncle Tom ... I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it. — Clarence Thomas

Sometimes the people that w love and care about the most are the ones that end up hurting us the most. — Sheree' Griffin

Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon. — C.L. Gammon

He insisted we sleep together, I insisted we didn't.
I won. — Sherry Gammon

America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax. — C.L. Gammon

You could kiss me, we've hardly kissed since you've come back. You didn't meet another woman while you were gone did you?" I traced around the outline of his lips with my index finger.
"There are other women out there?" The look on his face was one of genuine surprise.
"Oh, you're good." I kissed his cheek. "Did you come up with that all by yourself, or is it a line from one of your old movies?"
"All by myself." Seth put his arms around my waist and drew me close. — Sherry Gammon

Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential. — Gerald Chertavian

Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum, — Charles Dickens

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British Army deserters and otherwise unemployed African Americans. Washington doubted that these volunteers would ever be able to stand up to the British. Much to Washington's surprise, the free black men soon proved to be exemplary soldiers. — C.L. Gammon

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. — George Horace Lorimer

Survival in scarcity dictates nastiness with a rival clan, but also dictates goodness towards our own clan whose support is vital to acquire or defend the necessary scarcities.

Man's nastiness or goodness is not his fault or merit;
They both create the vital coping mechanism to his environment of scarcity. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

You know how important trust is to me, yet you've done nothing but deceive me. — Sherry Gammon

I love to read; I love to listen; I love to talk
in that order. — C.L. Gammon

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

Two more [birds added to her cage]. I call them the Wards in Jarndyce. They are caged up with all the others. With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!? - - - Miss Flite to Esther. [I thought a the last two a bit strange until I looked and saw the old definitions of gammon (as being double talk or obfuscation) and spinach (as being a spurious and unwanted growth). How appropriately summarized the situation! — Charles Dickens