Tail Quotes - page 2

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: "China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.” There's another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modern-it dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: "The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.” I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment. (Winston Churchill)
How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg The answer is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. View quote
Josh Billings
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them." View quote
John F. Kennedy
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook -BOOM, BOOM, BOOM-which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile. View quote
Rick Riordan
For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. View quote
Roger Caras
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident. View quote
Shannon Hale
Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail. View quote
James Patterson
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. (Bob Edwards)
Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail. View quote
Hiro Mashima
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. View quote
Graham Chapman
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' View quote
James Chanos
I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am. View quote
Marc Forgione
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! View quote
Steven Weber
I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood. View quote
Tom Berenger
No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom. It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick! View quote
Charles Darwin
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it. View quote
Groucho Marx
Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you. (Evelyn Waugh)
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle. View quote
John Adams
Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy. View quote
LeAnn Rimes
I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever ... I know where I came from - but where did all you zombies come from? View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. View quote
John Diefenbaker