Homer Quotes

148 Homer quotes by 104 unique authors

So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because… — Gwen Cooper
This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson) — Matt Groening
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the… — James A. Baldwin
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… — Jorge Luis Borges
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since… — Andre Gide
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure,… — Matt Groening
I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. — Babe Ruth
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today. — Babe Ruth
To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go… — Sammy Sosa
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer… — Dan Ariely
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer. — Umberto Eco
All men begin their learning with Homer. — Xenophanes
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of… — Brendan Myers
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. — Alice Oswald
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. — John B. S. Haldane
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. — William Scott
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. — Robert Fitzgerald
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. — Peter O'Toole

Who Wrote These Homer Quotes

104 authors contributed a total of 148 Homer Quotes, led by these top contributors: