Shoulder Quotes

Put your shoulder to the wheel. (Aesop)
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' View quote
Sam Levenson
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny they have only shifted it to another shoulder. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. View quote
Stephen Harper
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself. View quote
Gerald Ford
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. View quote
Bernard Baruch
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. View quote
A. E. Housman
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. (Charles Morgan)
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. View quote
William Golding
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. View quote
Robert Orben
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. View quote
Bernhard Langer
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. (Ethel Waters)
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder. View quote
Scott Speedman
When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way. View quote
Thornton Wilder
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