Shoulder Quotes
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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says "Let's make a wish on a star," there is one thing I wish for: wisdom.
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More Shoulder Quotes
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship in the United States.
frederick douglass— Speech, "Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army?", National Hall, Philadelphia (6 July 1863); published in Douglass' Monthly, August 1863
This is the ECW World Championship, and I will wear it proudly. [Points to the WWE Championship on his left shoulder] And look at this one—it spins!
rob van dam— ECW, June 13, 2006: after being proclaimed the new ECW World Champion and opting to keep the WWE Championship as well.
Poetry is a rich, full-blooded whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbers the leaf, the duet of two nightingales, the sweet pea, that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
wallace stevens— Quoted in Life, 13 June 1960.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
nazim hikmet— From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
aesop— Hercules and the Wagoner
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.
bernard baruch— As quoted in his obituary, New York Times (21 June 1965)
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.
jackson c. frank— Don't Look Back
I met my maker / I made him cry / And on my shoulder / He asked me why / His people won't fly / Through the storm / I said listen up man, they don't even know you're bornAll my people / Right here, right now / D'you know what I mean?Coming in a mess / Going out in style / I ain't good looking / But I'm someone's childNo one can give me the air that's mine to breathe"
Noel Gallagher— D'You Know What I Mean
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
ernest hemingway— "Trout Fishing in Europe" The Toronto Star Weekly (17 November 1923)
Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying "Well?" all the time, and he could—
a. a. milne— Chapter Five
Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?""Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."
alexander woollcott— "The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist," in Enchanted Aisles (1924)
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
yevgeny yevtushenko— The Observer (15 December 1991)
We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.
georgy zhukov— Quoted in "Odd World: A Photo-reporter's Story" - Page 299 - by John Phillips - 1959
Dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
— Manser, M. (2006). The Wordsworth dictionary of proverbs, Wordsworth Editions, Limited. p. 163
America is my home I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great not because of our military might or our economic strength but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."
alberto gonzales— Remarks at his installation as Attorney General
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
stephen harper— Canadian Press Newswire, April 11, 2003: On the Iraq war
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
elbert hubbard— "J.B. Runs Things," Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923) [Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766103978], p. 278
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.
robert orben— Greg Heberlein (September 20, 1987) "Seattleite Eyes Northwest Stocks for Wall Street Institutions", The Seattle Times, p. D2.
When you think I’ve been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I’ve had so many air disasters, and yet I’ve always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets.
muhammad reza pahlavi— Oriana Fallaci (December 30, 1973), The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran (interview), Chicago Tribune
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
Boris Pasternak— LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
Golden hair, like sunlight streaming On the marble of her shoulder.
john godfrey saxe— John Godfrey Saxe, The Lover's Vision, Stanza 3.
When we took the fin of Tiktaalik apart, we found something truly remarkable: all the joint surfaces were extremely well preserved. Tiktaalik has a shoulder, elbow and wrist composed of the same bones as an upper arm, forearm and wrist in a human.
— Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish (2008)
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
celia thaxter— Celia Thaxter, Song. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulder blades, only I seldom had bread.
— Charles Bukowski, in The New York Quarterly: NYQ., Issues 35-38 p.50
One day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?"
— Larry Wall [4]
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters. U.S.; let him get an edge on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
— Frederick Douglass, whose sons Charles and Lewis served in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1862).
