(614 quotes found)
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
Mark Twain
“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
William Orville Douglas
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts”
Charles Dickens
“Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.”
Charles L. Allen
“I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned”
Quentin Crisp
“In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.”
Conan O'Brien
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis
“If the Kaiser Chiefs win then I could well be the one seeking employment, they have been consistently backed and we have a very lopsided book,”
William Hill
“There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.”
William Osler
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