getting quotes

  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 4:7.

Let's be getting at them before they get at us.

-W(illiam) G(ilbert) Grace
His reason for always choosing to bat first if his team won the toss. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

He was getting over a four-day drunk, and I was getting over a 4-year marriage.

- Lillian Florence Hellman
  On meeting Dashiell Hammett. In the Christian Science Monitor,13 Oct.