Henry Quotes

405 Henry quotes by 268 unique authors

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache?… — Peter Fonda
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. — Peter Fonda
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. — Peter Fonda
I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp. — Don Haskins
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry… — Ian Hislop
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. — Catherine McCormack
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… — Virginia Woolf
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. — Gloria Steinem
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. — Edward Abbey
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. — Edward Abbey
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and… — Ray Bradbury
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -… — Ellen Glasgow
I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron. — Hank Aaron
It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry… — Brian Austin Green
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and… — Adrian Desmond
This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a… — Unknown Author
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — Stanley Kubrick
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the… — Chuck Jones
When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man… — Dwight L. Moody
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. — David O. McKay
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need. — Adam Osborne
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in… — William Shakespeare

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268 authors contributed a total of 405 Henry Quotes, led by these top contributors: