License Plate Quotes

• You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall, Mean, Redneck

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• You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Redneck, Might

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• I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Numbers, Car, Stories

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

  David Letterman

  Illinois, Car, States

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 12, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blow, Car, Cliffs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Struggle, Animal, Clothes

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• There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

  Patty Hearst

  Gun, Hands, Car

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• My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

  Josh Turner

  Dream, Cowboy, Sight

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• I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

  William S. Burroughs

  New York, Thinking, Land

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

  Lady Gaga

  Dad, Crazy, Heart

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Doctors, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

  Tom Bodett

  Growing Up, Kids, Alaska

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• Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

  Chelsea Handler

  Brother, Father, Suvs

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• If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

  Beverly Cleary

  Girl, People, Care

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• Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Heart, Car

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jefferey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.

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