Killing It Quotes

• Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Wisdom, Heart, Garden

  FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

  Holly Near

  Death, Fear, Killing Someone

  "Foolish Notion" (song) (1981)

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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• The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

  Steve Irwin

  Wildlife, Truth Is, Killing

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.211, Penguin

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• Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

  Taylor Swift

  Feminist, Challenges, Inspire

  "Taylor Swift Says ‘Women Who Are Killing It’ Should ‘Motivate You,’ Not Threaten You" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  Nathan Deal

  Agriculture, Fetus, Purpose

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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• The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

  Utah Phillips

  Names, People, Dying

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• Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Isis, Abuse

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• This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Hunting, Views

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

  Claudia Black

  Home, Killing, Planets

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Thinking, Insult, Killing

  Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.161, Macmillan

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• ...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.

  S. E. Hinton

  Hurt, Fighting, Winning

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.80, Penguin

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• Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Years, Calling, Firsts

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House

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• It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Thinking, Addiction

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Thinking, Wind

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.

  Bonnie McKee

  Teenager, Coffee, Choices

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Ladybugs, Killing, Butlers

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• Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

  Kevin Drum

  Ben Carson, Details, Killing

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• They look at me and say how come you're winning? You came back from the dead three years ago, and you're already killing it. I mean I came back from the dead. Thanks to my family and thanks to Kevin Zinger and my brother Evidence and Rocko, especially my blood family and the guys in Swollen Members. I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for those people.

  Shane Bunting

  Brother, Mean, Winning

  Source: 411mania.com

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• As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

  Neon Hitch

  Artist, Today, Killing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."

  Xosha Roquemore

  Laughing, People, Dancing

  "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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