Henkes Tavern Quotes & Sayings

Wait and hope, as I did while they took your arm off. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning, so I could warn the surgeon of its faltering."

"Did it falter?"

"Not once. Nor will it falter now. Fly free, my brave one, my sunbird. Take back the sky. Do not be afraid. — Elizabeth Wein

I want these words to make things right. But is the wrong that makes the words come to life. — Fall Out Boy

There was something to what he said, for it was true that the people I met on the job were generally much older than me, with a set of concerns and demands that created barriers to friendship. When I wasn't working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books. I — Barack Obama

I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today! — Max Cleland

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that. — Benmont Tench

The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union. — George Soros

It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians. — Paracelsus

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that. — Cheryl Cole

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that. — Frasier Crane

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part. — Suzanne Pleshette

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly. — Joan Didion

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here. — Ted Cruz