Cleaver Quotes

• The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Secret, Rift

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.50, BookBaby

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• I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Jobs, Grandma, Home

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• Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse." The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Kissing, Fire, Light

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

  Ben Cross

  Jobs, Character, Gentleman

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• Reagan loved and respected his father, Jack Reagan. But if there was a father figure to Reagan in the religious sense, it was Ben Cleaver. What Reagan's father didn't provide spiritually, from a fatherly point of view, Cleaver did.

  Paul Kengor

  Religious, Father, Views

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.afro.com

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• We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

  Huey Newton

  Committees, Mesmerized

  Source: www.afro.com

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• If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid of all these regulations, I can get rid of ObamaCare, no problem at all, then that would be a mistake.

  William Kristol

  Mistake, Obamacare, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Ucla, Ice, Soul

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Powerful, Gun

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• Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  News, Tables, Controversial

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• June Cleaver didn't keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Men, June, Order

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

  Kelly Ripa

  June, Perfect, Childhood

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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?

  Christopher Paolini

  Fire, Names, Imagination

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2259, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

  Richard Kadrey

  Mom, Secret, Looks

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

  Ridley Pearson

  Hands, Knives, Doe

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• If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

  Plutarch

  Philosophical, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.

  Daniel Craig

  Morning, Fun, Garden

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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

  Danny Glover

  Communication, Play, San Francisco

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• This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Teenage, Doubt, Chill

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• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  Barbara Billingsley

  June, People, Up To You

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• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  Barbara Billingsley

  Thinking, June, Years

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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