Their Backs Quotes

96 quotes by 84 authors

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. — Jim Hightower
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on… — Kin Hubbard
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on… — Hugh Jackman
Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt;… — Boris Kodjoe
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. — John Madden
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. — Wynton Marsalis
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. — Karl Marx
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was raised right â€” I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. — Kathy Griffin
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery… — R A Salvatore
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because… — Jandy Nelson
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. — Henry David Thoreau
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I must. I have fought my last battle. When I saw the Clan at Sunningrocks, the strong helping the weak...and I knew you and the… — Erin Hunter
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can… — Amitav Ghosh
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in… — Leo Tolstoy
What say you, Luxa?" said Vikus. "What can I say, Vikus? Can I return to our people and tell them I withdrew from the quest… — Suzanne Collins

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