Mines Quotes · Page 3

They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read…

— Margaret Atwood

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community,…

— Joe Biden

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

— Anja Niedringhaus

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

— Gore Vidal

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first…

— Joseph Addison

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

— William Glasser

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

— Michael Haneke

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films…

— Chika Anadu

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally…

— Russell Brand

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in…

— John Shelby Spong

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners…

— Mitt Romney

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading…

— Stewart O'Nan

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

— Frank Herbert

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging…

— Ned Kelly

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

— Alexander Pope

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.

— Iman Shumpert

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s…

— Helmut Newton

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…

— G. H. Hardy

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine…

— John McCain