Quotes & Sayings About Sampson

OLD GRIZZLY ADAMS. [37-*] James C. Adams, or "Grizzly Adams," as he was generally termed, from the fact of his having captured so many grizzly bears, and encountered such fearful perils by his unexampled daring, was an extraordinary character. For many years a hunter and trapper in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains, he acquired a recklessness which, added to his natural invincible courage, rendered him truly one of the most striking men of the age. He was emphatically what the English call a man of "pluck." In 1860, he arrived in New York with his famous collection of California animals, captured by himself, consisting of twenty or thirty immense grizzly bears, at the head of which stood "Old Sampson" - now in the American Museum - wolves, half a dozen other species of bear, California lions, tigers, buffalo, elk, etc., and Old Neptune, the great sea-lion, from the Pacific. — P.T. Barnum

I dance for freedom. I dance for people's reaction more than anything. I feel great and I feel like I can do anything, say anything while I'm dancing and nobody can care. I do have times when I'm angry and I literally do slam my bedroom door and dance all around my bedroom. It's a good way of getting energy out and it's a good way of doing things, but I do it purely just to entertain other people. — George Sampson

K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament. — Kelvin Sampson

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn. — George Sampson

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time. — Richard M. Nixon

So, yeah, I have to admit, I had my doubts. But they were without merit. Yet, I waited for the judgment strike of the clock to hit. For Mom to find out Sampson's secret.... -Abrielle, from Made for Me — Pamela Schloesser Canepa

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. — Deborah Sampson

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight. — Guy Fraser-Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. — Anthony Sampson

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon. — Deborah Sampson

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears — Chamera Sampson

I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do. — Jennifer Priester

anyone with enough compassion has the power to transform and redirect someone else's troubled life. — Sampson Davis

Neely grumbled. 'They [Indians] are a murdering lot of savages, and no mention of them in the Bible.'
'What has that to do with it?' John Sampson asked.
'If there's no mention of them,' Neely said, 'they are animals, not men.'
'I don't recall any mention of the English, either,' I said mildly.
He gave me a mean look, then changed the subject. — Louis L'Amour

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God'). — Anthony Sampson

Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to. — Greg Sampson

Sadie poured two cups of tea, dark and strong, the kind of tea that needed milk to take the edge off the tannin and then sugar to penetrate the fat of the milk. — Carl Sampson

What do you think we should do about Sampson?" I asked.
"I would have to say ... stop him," Sam said.
"How?" I asked her.
"Someone who is as powerful and as smart and crazy as he is should do it."
"Okay, but who?"
"Well ... you should."
"So you think I'm crazy?" I asked her. — Jennifer Priester

Maybe you go through life with ever-present feelings of inadequacy; you worry what other people would think if they knew the real you. — Aubrey Gayel Sampson

Unfortunately for Sampson, the naked mole rat was in heat at the moment. — Vernon D. Burns

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner. — Geoffrey Sampson

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears — Chamera Sampson

sometimes people are drawn together for a purpose that even they dont recognize at the time. — Sampson Davis

Speaking of the devil, what is Alma doing right now?"

"Well..." Sitting in her favorite armchair, Isabel craned her neck around to peer down the hallway to where she saw Alma squealing and clapping hands at their pet beagle Petey Sampson. With his tail wagging, he woof-woofed at her, and she woof-woofed right back at him. — Ed Lynskey

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up. — George Sampson

I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around. — Jeff Sampson

Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates. — Walter Scott

Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great. — Chuck Klosterman

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind. — Geoffrey Sampson

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? — Deborah Sampson

My advice to you is this- Whatever your passion may be, writing, reviewing, para-sailing, or teaching, whatever- don't let that passion simmer down and die. Chase your dreams, be strong, and most importantly, know yourself, only then will the world be yours to conquer. You might fail, but failures make the greatest stories. — Chamera Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy. — Deborah Sampson

I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I first knew him in the '50s, when I was living in Johannesburg, I thought it was too much. I thought he had too theatrical a sense, like he was too much of a showman, and I wasn't quite sure what lay behind it. I was quite wrong, of course, because as soon as he went - before he went to jail, when he made two great speeches, it was already clear that there was a great deal behind that showmanship. — Anthony Sampson

This isolation, this deep pit in the bottom of my stomach, didn't have to hurt so much. - Aquamarine Rosabelle bonus included in Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears — Chamera Sampson

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson

From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves. — Kelvin Sampson

Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun. — Jeff Sampson

The red carpet stuff is brilliant because it's so fun. In terms of exposure, I think it's something that you can never get used to because you don't know what you're being exposed to at all times. You just don't know what to expect. — George Sampson

His passion was the Galaxy. In retrospect, it's fitting that we won a championship for him this last year because I think he was so passionate about this team and loved every single player and the organization. — Steve Sampson

This 'archaic' stage of Sumerian script is not wholly understood by modern scholarship; and Sumerology is a tightly-knit, somewhat secretive academic discipline, which does not make it easy for the outsider to form a clear view of the current state of knowledge in the field. — Geoffrey Sampson

He hadn't even come to the Teddy Roosevelt School with Sampson. — James Patterson

Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability. — Guy Fraser-Sampson

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude. — Deborah Sampson

If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads. — Devon Sampson

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! — Deborah Sampson

Children can now recognize greater than a thousand corporate logos, but fewer than ten plants native to their region. The — Scott D. Sampson

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to. — Kevin Sampson

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while. — Chamera Sampson

Keeping your body sound is a statement of appreciation to the entire universe. — Amber Sampson

My experience showed me an ugly side of our human nature. That if we are told it's alright to step on someone, we will do so, in joy that we are not the one being stepped on. If we are told we can treat someone as lesser, we will do it, since it means we are more than they are." -Norrie, Seeing Through Sampson's Eyes — Pamela Schloesser Canepa

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors. — Deborah Sampson

The prospect of happiness has a way of clouding up a person's vision. When you are in love, the kind of love that comes way too fast and way too strong, the flaws of that person you love seem to disappear.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened to me. — Chamera Sampson

Where's my life gone? Where's it going? Looking across the grassy marshland to Flint and up the coast to Point Of Air, I start to wonder what all those poor fuckers in Wales are doing with their lives. Screwing? Sleeping in? Debating whether to take breakfast in bed to their broken fathers? Unlikely. They're probably doing what the gilded folk of Hollywood are doing, or Kowloon or Port Elizabeth. Worrying. Worrying about getting old, or about work, or about money, or about their boyfriend, mistress, lover, house, health, future. Life is shit. There is no fucking point to any of it. Not now that we've evolved past the survival stage. Maybe we used to live to hunt to kill to eat to live another day. Now we just kill time in as many sophisticated ways as possible. Pointless jobs. Pointless lives. Work. Television. Football. — Kevin Sampson

Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson — James Patterson

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. — Jerry Leiber

Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said. — Jennifer Priester

ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. — William Shakespeare

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier? — Deborah Sampson

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades. — Anthony Sampson

His separation from the rest of society is beyond vast. But we are not working within the parameters of reality; we are working within the parameters of televised sport. And that's a critical difference. It essentially makes Ralph Sampson a tall, emotive, representational nonhuman slave. And within these parameters, four thousand rebounds don't mean shit. — Chuck Klosterman

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen? — Natalie Corbett Sampson

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. — Deborah Sampson

Why can I not fight for my country too? — Deborah Sampson

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence! — Deborah Sampson

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it. — Anthony Sampson

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. — George Sampson

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship ... is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual. — Geoffrey Sampson

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight — Natalie Corbett Sampson

Link held up a spoon. "Bend this fork with your mind." "It's a spoon." "Trick question." Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. "So you think with your fists? Good to know. — Kami Garcia

Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players. — Kelvin Sampson

Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners! — Deborah Sampson

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. — Deborah Sampson

I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly.

Nelson Mandela — Anthony Sampson

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make — Natalie Corbett Sampson

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed — Sampson Davis

I really am a little afraid, my dear," hinted the cherub meekly, "that you are not enjoying yourself?"
"On the contrary," returned Mrs. Wilfer, "quite so. Why should I not?"
"I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might - "
"My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled?"
And she did smile; manifestly freezing the blood of Mr. George Sampson by so doing. For that young gentleman, catching her smiling eye, was so very much appalled by its expression as to cast about in his thoughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself. — Charles Dickens

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours. — Deborah Sampson

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step. — Deborah Sampson

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate. — Breanna Sampson

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. — Kelvin Sampson

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward — Patricia Sampson

There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There's no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be that guy. He was needed elsewhere, for other reasons. He was needed to remind people that their own self-imposed mediocrity is better than choking on transcendence. — Chuck Klosterman

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser ... I was the girl who loved everything geeky. — Jeff Sampson

Let you light shine from the inside out. — Juliet M. Sampson

Spread sunshine and inspiration. — Juliet M. Sampson

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory? — Abbott Eliot Kittredge

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. — Shelley Duvall

AGONISTES (AGONI'STES) n.s.[ Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength. — Samuel Johnson

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that. — Steve Sampson

I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. — Deborah Sampson