Store Quotes

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. (Shirley Temple)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. View quote
Douglas Adams
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. View quote
Dave Barry
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. View quote
Jennifer Garner
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. View quote
Steven Wright
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again. (Steven Wright)
I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. View quote
Steven Wright
They are perfect how elsethey shall never change We are faulty why notwe have time in store. View quote
Robert Browning
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! View quote
Anne Tyler
I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd. View quote
Patrick Stump
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln. View quote
John Steinbeck
A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten. View quote
Brian Selznick
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. View quote
Kazuo Inamori
If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store. View quote
Natalie Wood
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. View quote
Frederick Reines
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. (Owen D. Young)
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. View quote
Thomas Haden Church
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. View quote
Auguste Comte
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. View quote
Robert Southwell