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Shields Quotes by Billy Collins
- When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector…
- Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to…
More Shields Quotes
- Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke
- I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. — Glenn Close
- A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon. — Martin Luther
- You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray… — John Bunyan
- The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes
- No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional… — Hugo Black
- Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted… — John F. Kerry
- Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diane Black