Americans Quote by Dean Koontz

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

— Louise Rennison

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to…

— John Ridley

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.”

— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good…

— Sandra Cisneros

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the…

— Victor Hugo

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

— Patience Gray

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

— Zach Galifianakis

“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”

— Peter Orner

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius

[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall…

— Alexander Hamilton

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje