Sheehan Quotes & Sayings

And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Now woman, you need to start doin' what you came here to do or I'm gonna do it for you. — Madeline Sheehan

There's a side benefit to this. We get to learn about each other, get to know each other, all over again." His voice dropped to a husky near whisper, and he leaned close and said next to my ear, "We get to fall in love all over again, for the second time. How cool is that? — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff. — Cindy Sheehan

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year ... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child. — George A. Sheehan

My longtime broken heart was breaking again, shattering, falling to pieces and disintegrating. And in its place was a brand new heart. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. — Madeline Sheehan

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road. — George Sheehan

And he kissed her. And kissed her. Fucking kissed her. Kissed the fucking shit out of her. Kissed her the way he'd been wanting to kiss her since he'd left her. — Madeline Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. — Karl Rove

Cause when it comes to you, darlin', I got no fuckin' sense. You fuckin' pull me in until you're all I can fuckin' see. Suddenly, I can't fuckin' breathe, but I don't care 'cause you, babe, you're you. And I ain't ever met anyone as fuckin' perfect as you. — Madeline Sheehan

The young woman's surprised gaze dropped to the gun in his hand and then back to his face. — Madeline Sheehan

And if this is anyone's fault," she continued. "It's mine for bringing an innocent little girl around a criminal motorcycle club full of self-important assholes who think with their dicks and their guns instead of their brains! — Madeline Sheehan

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be. — Cindy Sheehan

I should go. My date ... "
"Screw him."
"That wasn't on the agenda for tonight."
He gave me a wicked grin.
"I'm glad. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans. — Neil Sheehan

I have met my hero, and he is me. — George A. Sheehan

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war. — Cindy Sheehan

UNTIL I TOOK UP distance running, I found it easy to take it easy. I had no difficulty following the warnings of the experts. "Avoid stress," cautioned the physicians. I did. "Reduce your tensions," advised the psychologists. I did. "Rest that restless heart," counseled the clergy. I did. Doing these things requires no effort when you are lacking what Santayana called America's ruling passion - a love for business - when you are a lifelong non-joiner whose greatest desire is not to become involved, when almost everyone you meet is less interesting than your own ideas, and when your inner life has more reality than your outer one. — George Sheehan

Cox slanted his eyes at him and grinned. "You're makin' me miss Kami," he said with a dramatic sigh. "Shut up," Mick growled. "You're a fuckin' pussy-whipped asshole." "Oh yeah?" Cox threatened. "How about I take your old lady out for a fuckin' ride? You good with that, old man?" Mick lunged and Cox went running. "Who's fuckin' pussy-whipped now, asshat?" Cox laughed over his shoulder. "That would be you, bitch!" "You did not just call me a bitch!" Mick roared, chasing him. "Bitch! I fuckin' did! Bitch! — Madeline Sheehan

Can't fuckin' live without you. Want you on my bike and in my bed. Want my kids inside you. Want you by my side babe for as long as I got left — Madeline Sheehan

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. — George A. Sheehan

Because you make me better. You make me-you make me feel like I matter. Like my life matters. I feel like, with you, I can do anything in the world. That we can do anything in the world. And we will. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

No one can sustain rage for long. I am still angry and always will be. My dear son was stolen from me and his family to never return. He was killed for profit and lies. How can I not be angry? Sometimes though, the rage comes back. — Cindy Sheehan

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending. — George Sheehan

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence. — Cindy Sheehan

Coulda fuckin' told me, little sister," he said quietly. "Would never let you go through all this shit by yourself."
Grabbing my hand, he threaded his large fingers through mine and squeezed. "This is what big brothers are fuckin' here for ... To pick their little sisters up when they fall the fuck down. — Madeline Sheehan

Damn, Ripper," Cox said, snorting. "You're so pussywhipped you need your old lady defendin' you?"
"Cox, don't speak," Kamie said. "It makes you less hot. — Madeline Sheehan

Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George Sheehan

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait. — George A. Sheehan

If you send me on my way today," I whispered "If you tell me to get the hell out of your life and never come back ... I'll accept it. But it will be the one and only permanent regret of my life: that we never made love.That we lost our future together. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Small moment, missed opportunities, things we don't see or pay attention to at the time sometimes have a far bigger impact on our lives than we would have ever guessed in advance. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. — Cindy Sheehan

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner. — George A. Sheehan

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever. — Cindy Sheehan

Yeah, that's her. Roly-poly little bitch. Fucked her in the ass the other day and, get this, she shit all over me. I'm talkin', this wasn't no little mess. This was Niagara fuckin' Falls pourin' outta her ass. — Madeline Sheehan

Oh god, Anabeth," Ellie muttered. "Your whole life is based around sex." "So?" she shot back. "It's better than having sex with fictional characters!" Ellie shot up out of my desk chair. "I do not have sex with fictional characters!" "Oh puh-lease, I've seen the books you read, all big muscley men and virginal women and steamy sex. Why else would you read that crap if not to get off? — Madeline Sheehan

Ripper in the front, ZZ in the back, Dirty in the mouth. — Madeline Sheehan

Since when are you so nice?" I whispered.
Cage's nostrils flared slightly. "Only once, since the day I met you, Teacup, that I haven't treated you right. Am I right? — Madeline Sheehan

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. — Cindy Sheehan

Did I piss you off somehow? Because I'm having some trouble figuring you out."
Crank shrugged and looked out the window again, then said, "I'm not an easy guy to figure out."
"I'm not interested enough to try. It's just that last night you were all, stay the hell away, and this morning you were friendly, and now I'm sitting in a car with an ice cube. I don't do moody."
"I didn't ask you to," he responded.
"Are you always such a dickhead?"
His eyes widened, and he looked over at me. Then he smirked and laughed out loud. We were still sitting at a red light, so I glared at him.
"You're actually really hot," he said. The smirk on his face widened a little.
"You're actually really an ass," I replied. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it. — Cindy Sheehan

Everything has beauty. Even the ugly. Because without the ugly, there would be no beauty. Because without beauty, we would not survive our pain, our sorrow and our suffering. — Madeline Sheehan

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home. — Cindy Sheehan

I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war? — Cindy Sheehan

maybe if everyone appreciated good whiskey, pretty girls and breathing a little bit more, there'd be fewer suckers out there willing to fight and die in the petty wars begun by the sharp, the mendacious and the wicked. — Jason Sheehan

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one - contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action. — George Sheehan

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure. — Cindy Sheehan

The person who killed my son, I have no animosity for that person at all. — Cindy Sheehan

What are you afraid of?" he asked.
"Losing control," I replied.
"Sometimes losing control can be wicked awesome," he said. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Whatever this shit is between us it's always been there and it's always gonna be there. I'm shit-fuckin'-tired tryin' to ignore it. I'll try to do right by you Eva, you'd be the first, but I'll fuckin' try my damndest. And baby, true freedom is the open road, the wind on your face and a good woman on the back of your bike holdin' you tight like you're her reason for breathin' because she sure as fuck is yours. — Madeline Sheehan

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be. — George A. Sheehan

Hidin' is fuckin' easy. It's really livin' that's hard, that sometimes hurts like a son of a bitch. — Madeline Sheehan

From chaos, the strongest sort of love is usually born. — Madeline Sheehan

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. — George A. Sheehan

Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for the first time. Through it I get through the first barrier to true emotions, the lack of integration with the body. Into it I escape from the pettiness and triviality of everyday life. And, once inside,stop the daily pendulum perpetually oscillating between distraction and boredom...It is the swing from boredom to anxiety, from depression to worry, that exhausts and defeats us. The sure knowledge that we can be much more than we are frustrates us. — George Sheehan

When we show love, we make any day a sacred day. - Pauline Sheehan - — Gary Chapman

But we got through it. Together. It didn't happen overnight and it wasn't easy.
Nothing worth doing ever is.
And love is worth everything — Madeline Sheehan

Take it, Teacup," he said hoarsely. "Be my girl. — Madeline Sheehan

And sometimes, love is unconventional and it breaks all the rules and blurs all the lines and basks in its glory, shining as bright as the sun, unapologetically glowing even under the narrowed stares of society and its screaming, self-righteous morals, berating and judging that which it doesn't understand. — Madeline Sheehan

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. — George A. Sheehan

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. — Billy Sheehan

Could just feed 'im to the dogs, Prez," Bucket drawled. "Wouldn't have to feed 'em for a whole fuckin' month after that."
Dirty rolled his eyes. Bucket was full of shit; the club didn't have any dogs. — Madeline Sheehan

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day. — Cindy Sheehan

There it is, darlin',"He said softly, his lips curling slowly in a sexy grin. "Nothin'like seein' a pretty girl gettin' all fired up. — Madeline Sheehan

Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am. — Cindy Sheehan

You need somethin' from me, baby? — Madeline Sheehan

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan

Danny," Ripper whispered in my ear. "Three songs gone by and there's some old fuckin' bitch makin' statutory rape faces at me. — Madeline Sheehan

It's not art, it's science. — Billy Sheehan

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. — George A. Sheehan

I am Preachers little girl. And I'm gonna be just like him when I grow up. I'm gonna have a Fatboy but I want mine to be sparkly and I want a pink helmet with skulls on it. And instead of being the club President, I'm gonna be the club Queen cuz I'm gonna marry the biggest, scariest biker in the whole world and he's gonna let me do whatever I want because he's gonna love me like crazy. — Madeline Sheehan

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of novelists like Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, and Tobias Wolff, and then nonfiction such as "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan and "The Best and Brightest" by David Halberstam . Those are the two best histories of Vietnam. — George Packer

The things you rebel against are the things that define you — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up. — Anna Sheehan

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn. — Ann Coulter

Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Life is fragile. Screw all that hesitant bullshit. We were going to go for it. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Where in motherfucking-shit-fucking-hell-fucking bullshit had that come from? — Madeline Sheehan

Have you ever felt worse after a run? — George A. Sheehan

Michael," he heard her say, her voice soft. "Please look at me and let me show you what love is. — Madeline Sheehan

You ever watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown?" Deuce asked. "Stupid Fucker makes me laugh."
I decided, I too, really liked that stupid fucker Charlie Brown and made a mental note to watch everything featuring Charlie Brown as soon as I got home. — Madeline Sheehan

Cox shrugged. if that's what it takes to get laid, then I'm a fuckinin'poet. Other times I'm a fuckin' accountant. Or a plumber. Sometime's a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. — Madeline Sheehan

I'm tryin' to figure out whether I'm gonna slap some sense into you or fuck the shit outta you. — Madeline Sheehan

I'll go to hell with him — Charles Sheehan-Miles

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. — Cindy Sheehan

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more. — Billy Sheehan

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world. — Cindy Sheehan

Alex, I don't need to keep myself safe from you. I don't want to keep myself safe from you. You mean too much to me. I'd rather have a lifetime of heartache, from you breaking my heart, than even imagine my life without you at all. Because a life without you wouldn't be a life at all. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies — Cindy Sheehan

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe. — Cindy Sheehan

Babe, you're the most beautiful woman in the whole goddamn world to me. You're all I fuckin' want, Teacup. — Madeline Sheehan

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies. — Cindy Sheehan

First you shoot me," he muttered. "Now you're handin' me your damn club and spoutin' love poems." "She was sixteen, motherfucker, you woulda shot you." "No, asshole, I woulda killed me." At that, Preacher just kept grinning. Jesus, was he in the twilight zone? — Madeline Sheehan

I can't think about him, but I can't forget him, either. It's not right to forget someone you love. — Anna Sheehan

Eva," he rasped, cupping the back of her head and forcing her to look at him. "Marry me, darlin'. — Madeline Sheehan

But when it did, when the first American fell to his knees, the government was ill prepared for the fallout and the sickness spread like wildfire. — Madeline Sheehan

No, he didn't care about anything else in the world except for his woman, the sweetest kid he'd ever met, the smartest too, a kid who'd turned into the sexiest woman he'd ever seen. A woman who didn't just love with her whole heart but with her body and soul. A woman who time and time again, brought him to his fucking knees, had him prayer to a god he didn't believe in just so he could keep her by his side.
A woman whose motherfucking smile made the world and his life seem somewhat livable. Even worth it sometimes. — Madeline Sheehan

From the moment I put my mom's car in drive, my coffee mug still on the roof, I could tell it was going to be a rough day. The mug, which had been a cute gift from Dylan, went flying off the car and smashed into a million pieces. I gasped as I saw it spinning in the rearview mirror, falling in what seemed like slow motion until it hit the street, splattering my coffee and tiny pieces of porcelain across the road. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Sometimes, I think ... people we put on pedestals ... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human. — Charles Sheehan-Miles