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
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.
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
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
Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.
(Harold) Hart Crane— 1930 The Bridge,'The River'.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg— 1956 Howl and Other Poems,'America'.
I wanted your soft verges But you gave me the hard shoulder.
— 1967 'Song of a Beautiful Girl Petrol-pump Attendant'.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
George Bernard Shaw— 1903 Man and Superman,'The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, byJohnTanner', foreword.
Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow,Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow.
john byrom— Upon a Trial of Skill between the Great Masters of the Noble Science of Defence, Messrs. Figg and Sutton as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
I rowed stroke and he rowed bow in the famous Long Vacation voyage to Godstow, when the three Miss Liddells were our passengers, and the story was actually composed and spoken over my shoulder.
robinson duckworth— Of the origin of Alice in Wonderland.
— The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899), p. 358
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
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
p. l. travers— "The World of the Hero" (1976)
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
thornton wilder— "Mr. Webb"
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)
What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.
— Quoted in The Economist, 25 Feb 2012, p.63
You always had the feeling that Cowperthwaite was looking over your left shoulder. You knew that he would ask at least five questions about any proposal that was submitted.
john james cowperthwaite— Value for Money, the Hong Kong Budgetary Process by Alvin Rabushka (1976), page 127.
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
jerry ford— Dedication speech at the World Golf Hall of Fame, Pinehurst North Carolina, as quoted in The New York Times (12 September 1974)
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
Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.
stanisław lem— Ch. 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
karl marx— Vol. III, Ch. L, Illusions Created by Competition, p. 866
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
— Bible, in Hendrickson Parallel Bible-PR-KJV/NKJV/NIV/NLT, p.1954
I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 2, line 99.
Golden hair, like sunlight streaming On the marble of her shoulder.
john godfrey saxe— John Godfrey Saxe, The Lover's Vision, Stanza 3.
Or sweet Europa's mantle blew unclasped From off her shoulder backward borne; From one hand drooped a crocus: one hand grasped The mild bull's golden horn.
— Alfred Tennyson, Palace of Art, Stanza 30.
All of us, no matter from what land our parents came, no matter in what way we may severally worship our Creator, must stand shoulder to shoulder in a united America for the elimination of race and religious prejudice. We must stand for a reign of equal justice to both big and small. We must insist on the maintenance of the American standard of living.
— Theodore Roosevelt, "Address to the Knights of Columbus" (12 October 1915).
