Signers Of The Declaration Quotes & Sayings

I cry at everything. Simply to spite myself and embarrass myself. — Sylvia Plath

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. — Gerald F. Lieberman

He's insufferable. Excruciatingly unbearable. Plain obnoxious — J.C. Reed

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben

Lessening the misery of the past will lead to a brighter future. — Emma Scott

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you. — James Wolk

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself. — Alan Alda

They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. — Abraham Lincoln

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. — Kary Mullis

What Are the Odds? Here's an astonishing fact: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become president, both died on July 4, 1826. — Kendra Hazlett Armstrong

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. — James Russell Lowell

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away. — Jean Harris

The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution were inspired from on high to do that work. — Brigham Young