Hail Quotes

• I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

  Angie Stone

  Kings, Reality, Men

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• Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spirit, Classic, Blithe

  "To a Skylark" l. 1 (1819)

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• I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Storm, Caught, Jackasses

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• My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all

  Claudia Black

  Running, Ideas, My Boyfriend

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• I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Men, Gold, Reason

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Pouring, Comeback, Insult

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• I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Witty, Nice

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Hail fellow, well met.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mets, Wells, Fellows

  My Lady's Lamentation" l. 165 (written 1728)

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• I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

  Piper Perabo

  Rain, Sunshine, Confusing

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• Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

  Richard Widmark

  Two Sides, Car, Would Be

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• On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

  A. A. Milne

  Tuesday, Snow, Feelings

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.79, Egmont UK

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• Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fairy Tale, Fairy, Tales

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

  Robert Moses

  Ghetto, Eggs, People

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• Child of the pure unclouded brow
  And dreaming eyes of wonder!
  Though time be fleet, and I and thou
  Are half a life asunder,
  Thy loving smile will surely hail
  The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

  Joseph Hopkinson

  Hero, Land, America

  "Hail, Columbia" l. 1 (1798)

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• Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Prayer, Names

  "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

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• Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

  A. B. Simpson

  Blessing, Opportunity, Two

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• How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Rain, Feet

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.49

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• We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.

  Zack Snyder

  Ideas, Storm, Hollywood

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Dear, Whisk

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blue, Weather, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.19

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• And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Queens, Night

  "Botanic Garden". Book by Erasmus Darwin, part I, canto II, line 90,

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• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

  Lady G

  Men, Feminist

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• Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Men, Sheep

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works".

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