Delta Quotes

• I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

  Charles Evers

  Baby, Bobby Kennedy, Cried

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• My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

  Mark Knopfler

  Ideas, Heaven, Delta Blues

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

  Margaret Smith

  Running, Women, Memorable

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• That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

  Muddy Waters

  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

  Little Milton

  Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Music, Forever, Jazz

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• I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

  Bo Gritz

  Military, Sea, Risk

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• Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Creating, People, Different

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• Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

  Bill Gates

  Ocean, Rivers, People

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dream, People, Remember

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• My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.

  Christopher Titus

  Car, Groups, Rolling

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, People

  "George R.R. Martin Teases Major Deaths In Next 'Game Of Thrones' Book" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2014.

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• If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, One Direction, Rivers

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.134, Editorial Renacimiento

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• Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

  Derek Luke

  Character, Hard Times, Play

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• Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Stupid

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

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• The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Military, Hands, Citizens

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• I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

  Nneka

  Strong, Growing Up, Thinking

  "The Wrap Up" with Nonny Orakwue, www.mtv.co.uk. January 4, 2012.

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Chicago, Baggage

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• Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

  Robert L. Priddy

  Want, Aviation, Rich

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• If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

  Jean Toomer

  Rivers, Curves, Feelings

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• When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Children, Mean, Helping Others

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

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• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

  Patrick Ness

  Fire, Light, Darkness

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• For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

  Jill Scott

  Jobs, Safari, Overwhelmed

  "Traveling with the Stars: Jill Scott". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 23, 2009.

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