42 Garfield Quotes

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Famous Garfield Quotes

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another. — Chester A. Arthur

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! - John Candy

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! — John Candy

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. — James K. Polk

Great men have great dogs. — Otto von Bismarck

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. — H. L. Mencken

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. — Lloyd Bentsen

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. — Tommy Douglas

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year. — Will Rogers

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. — Frederick Douglass

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same. — John Tyler

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. — Sarah Vowell

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. — John Moody

Short Garfield Quotes

  • I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box. — Chris Pratt
  • If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen — Jim Davis
  • I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. — Jack Klugman
  • Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me. — Jim Davis
  • In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange. — Jim Davis
  • Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield — Jim Davis

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More Garfield Quotes

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere. — Wayne Shorter

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants. — Candice Millard

I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare. — Sunil Gavaskar

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. — Jay Leno

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years. — Jim Cooper

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. — Jim Davis

I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield. — Marie Windsor

The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney... John Garfield... Robert Ryan... Steve McQueen... James Caan... Those are my fondest memories. — Mark Wahlberg

I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good. — Stan Lee

There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun. — Jim Davis

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . . — Whoopi Goldberg

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield. — Andrew Buchan

Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc. — Dave Barry

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current. — Marc Webb

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