When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.


George McGovern

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 tril...
TED CRUZ
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, ...
BUZZ ALDRIN
When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always imperson...
JASON MANTZOUKAS
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
HAROLD PINTER
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
DOC HASTINGS
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shatte...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on t...
CINDY SHEEHAN
I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. W...
CHERIE LUNGHI
When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the m...
GEORGE TENET
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w...
ANG LEE
My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi...
MARC RAMSEY
A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder
CHESTER W. NIMITZ
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge....
MANUEL MOROUN
My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high scho...
THEODORE SCHULTZ
With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next j...
WILLIAM SHATNER
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powd...
CHESTER W. NIMITZ
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated a...
GEORGE GROSZ
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was...
ALI ALLAWI
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor...
MONICA CROWLEY
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technic...
RICK SANTELLI
I grew up in Worcester, and we never thought twice about the Blackstone. It was something south of t...
DONNA WILLIAMS
We are opportunistic. We have a very significant war chest. Our net debt is around $3 billion. It's ...
ANDREI GAIDAMAKA
When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
RYAN TEDDER
It is referred to in the business as invisible providers.
BARBARA PETITO
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON
Oppression will lead to war. Imperialism will lead to war. Debt will enable war. Natural Resources w...
ANTHONY I. LANE
I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I'...
ALAN ZWEIBEL
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t...
TOM HANKS
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER
It is not a highway, ... In our meeting in Washington, it was referred to as a highway. It is not. I...
JIM WHITAKER
When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic coura...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.
J. LOREN WINCE
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitra...
JUDITH BUTLER
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represen...
JOHN SPRATT
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the Fre...
DAVID KAY
I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his ...
GEN MARK W. CLARK
My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON
It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
VINCE FLYNN
Hopefully WorldCom will not use its debt-free status to start a price war.
JEFF KAGAN
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Wh...
TIM BERNERS-LEE
I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to y...
ANTOINE FUQUA
I don't want any more of our young men and women to die in this war. It was a bad war from the start...
BILL MITCHELL
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre...
JOHN GOKONGWEI
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
During the war (World War II) when meat was rationed, customers brought meat to the restaurant to ke...
COLLEEN STOGSDILL
'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spar...
ADAM HUGHES
I go back to World War I. I even remember armistice day in school. During the war, my mother was bus...
HOLLY DIANICH
Enron got in trouble with too much debt. Investors and analysts didn't realize how much debt they ha...
MIKE BARBIS
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the U...
JOHN MAHONEY
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the wa...
MAYA LIN
I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy,...
BILLY AL BENGSTON
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...
ALDO LEOPOLD
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did...
ABBEY LINCOLN
The sweetest thing that can happen to a debtor is to see his debts fully paid
SOTONYE ANGA
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA
When you have unmanageable debt, debt controls you. If you are in the position to manage debt, or ha...
JAMES DELAGARZA
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy,...
HARRI HOLKERI
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
It was established originally as a living monument to the World War One veterans.
BILL ANDERSON
In 2004 there was a report filed against this teacher involving another student. We interviewed the ...
DENISE MONTEIRO
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of '...
DREW GILPIN FAUST
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
TATE DONOVAN
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of fa...
GUY SAJER
We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but...
PHILIP ZALESKI
I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music onl...
JOHN WILLIAMS
I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, th...
JANE GOODALL
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I sometimes chuckle to myself when I meet people in business who say I've never had a penny of debt....
DONALD FORSYTH
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus...
DORIS LESSING
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
NGUYEN CAO KY
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit st...
DAVID MALPASS
They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.
ROB SANDERSON
I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and...
CHARLES SCHWAB
Often such reports end up on shelves, gathering dust. But Gov. Rendell held it up and referred to it...
MICHAEL YOUNG
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm out...
GEOFFREY CANADA
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear ...
HANS BLIX
When I was a youngster, we could go up to the fire lookouts and see 100 miles into New Mexico. Ship ...
BILL WADE
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval ...
BARACK OBAMA
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to the...
CHRIS WOODING
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was...
CHARLIZE THERON
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I...
BOBBY THOMSON
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the na...
JOHN KASICH
What is clear is that in 1900, Galveston was growing fast, had already become the number one cotton ...
ERIK LARSON
Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly...
DAVID GRAEBER
Debt is like a double edged sword. Use it well and you shall win the war. Use it wrongly and you sha...
ZENG HAN JUN
This quarter's disappointing net loss occurred during one of the most severe global market dislocati...
FRANK NEWMAN
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more in...
ALISON MOYET
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a nat...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of pl...
BROOKE SWEAT
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered t...
AZZEDINE ALAIA
you are not in my debt. You can’t be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don’t want to d...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to...
HA-JOON CHANG

More George McGovern

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I'm a movie buff.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you h...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in V...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The longer the title, the less important the job.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe....
GEORGE MCGOVERN
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anyt...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civilit...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothin...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the De...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggre...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country dee...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
“I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and wa...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
GEORGE MCGOVERN
There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All yo...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly m...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunist...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can s...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires i...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I met my wife in South Dakota.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and y...
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
One Bright Shining Moment
GEORGE MCGOVERN
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN
I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN
The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN
If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ...
WILLIAM MCGOVERN
The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN
Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not th...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
The defendant now knows he was a hair's breadth away (from) being convicted of several violent crime...
MICHAEL MCGOVERN
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
Whether these decrees were signed by the president and absolutely contradictory or not, either way i...
MIKE MCGOVERN
The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. I...
RAY MCGOVERN
That's a loophole you can drive a Mack truck through.
RAY MCGOVERN
The mutiny is [probably] seen as evidence of the fact that it's a very precarious situation still.
MIKE MCGOVERN
It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their ...
CHRIS MCGOVERN
Neither side admits the allegations in the other's lawsuit, but both parties are committed to puttin...
JOHN MCGOVERN
Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There is...
PAT MCGOVERN
There is a real risk of devaluation in Venezuela. We've seen significant outflows from Brazil. ... S...
DAN MCGOVERN
Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.
CHRIS MCGOVERN
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
With increasing population density, wealth in people becomes problematic. Land is scarce, water is s...
MIKE MCGOVERN
after the flood comes the whitewash.
JAMES MCGOVERN
After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN
According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointme...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN
He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN
We lack rituals in this modern world.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.
RAY MCGOVERN
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll...
JIM MCGOVERN
The closest post office we have for him is the New Rochelle office. We certainly sympathize with him...
PAT MCGOVERN
He's the one who's been advocating a move toward a currency board, concentrating foreign exchange ea...
DAN MCGOVERN
[This] has really helped a great deal, ... It has captured some of the problem with short selling, w...
DAN MCGOVERN
by year's end, these questions will be resolved and interest rates will come down.
DAN MCGOVERN
It's quite rewarding to think the money is going to investors. The disappointing aspect to me is tha...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN
It was a challenge to get to 46 percent, a big-time challenge.
FRANCIS MCGOVERN
The process of designing a distribution plan in connection with the global research analyst settleme...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN
Dear Matthew-
There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaw...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN
Joe Moakley not only taught us how to live, he taught us how to die, with great class and great dign...
JAMES MCGOVERN
[Moakley was working] up until the very end, ... up until he couldn't do it anymore.
JAMES MCGOVERN
The world is gonna miss Joe Moakley; I already do,
JAMES MCGOVERN
Don't go home and tell your constituents you did anything for them. In truth, you haven't,
JAMES MCGOVERN
This bill is not about fixing the Endangered Species Act, it's about gutting it,
JAMES MCGOVERN
It's wonderful that so many people are here to offer their help and love, ... It not only says a lot...
JAMES MCGOVERN
After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the...
JAMES MCGOVERN
[Democrats contended that Republicans cannot be trusted to run an impartial investigation.] After th...
JAMES MCGOVERN
The grandstand structures were also in a similar deteriorated condition due to age,
JAMES MCGOVERN
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certain...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting marri...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and final...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a wa...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
Breast-feeding babies digest food more rapidly and need to feed more frequently. That's tiring for m...
PAT MCGOVERN
I didn't know to be as terrified as I should have been, ... I was sort of sent to the edge and told ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back o...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm s...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
For years, people kept saying to me, 'You have such a big voice, you should go into theater.' I was ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the r...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN
This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent ther...
RAY MCGOVERN
His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of...
JOHN MCGOVERN
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN
I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI
'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE
I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE
I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF
Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS