Rifle Quotes - page 4

So I asked him why he had poled one of his fields and not the other of his small farm. His reply showed the folly of assuming rationality in human behavior. "The Germans told us farmers to pole all our fields by June 15. My cow never liked that west field so I poled it first." In this case, the whim of a French cow was the controlling factor, not the plans of the German General Staff. As I was about to go, the farmer asked me to wait a moment, went back into the house and returned with a clip of World War I rifle ammunition. He gave it to me with the injunction "Allez me tuer un Boche." (Maxwell D. Taylor)
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. View quote
Roy Blunt
The cavalryman, is for practical purposes a compound of three factors; man, horse and rifle. The lance should go altogether. View quote
Robert Erskine Childers
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? View quote
Christine Pelosi
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. View quote
David Hackworth
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. View quote
Gagan Narang
There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years. View quote
Gagan Narang
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. View quote
Gail Collins
Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot.” Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. View quote
Joe Manchin
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art. (Joe Perry)
Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald. View quote
John Sherman Cooper
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10. View quote
Jon Meacham
I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family. View quote
Nan Hayworth
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. View quote
Steve Albini
How gladly would I wander through some strange and savage land, The lasso at my saddle-bow, the rifle in my hand, A leash of gallant mastiffs bounding by my side, And, for a friend to love, the noble horse on which I ride! Alone, alone-yet not alone, for God is with me there, The tender hand of Providence shall guide me everywhere, While happy thoughts and holy hopes, as spirits calm and mild, Shall fan with their sweet wings the hermit-hunter of the wild! View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I was nurtured in the school of the rifle and the tomahawk. View quote
Moses Van Campen
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
Misunderstood ain't got to be explained but you don't understand me so let me explain, stood in the heat the flame the snow, please slow down hurricane, the wind blows my dreads swang, he had hair like wool like Wayne uhh, droppin ashes in da bible I shake them out and they fall on da rifle, scary hale Mary no tale fairy all really very extraordinary. View quote
Lil Wayne
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. (Jeff Cooper)
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. View quote
Jeff Cooper
Had to run. Jeep stuck. Ditched the (rifle.) Went on foot, heading southwest to stream under (Interstate) 84. View quote
Eric Frein
James Burford, collier and fitter, was the oldest soldier of all. When I first spoke to him in the trenches, he said: "Excuse me, sir, will you explain what this here arrangement is on the side of my rifle?" "That's the safety catch. Didn't you do a musketry-course at the depôt?" "No, sir, I was a re-enlisted man, and I spent only a fortnight there. The old Lee-Metford didn't have no safety-catch." I asked him when he had last fired a rifle. "In Egypt in 1882," he said. "Weren't you in the South African War?" View quote
Robert Graves
We make war and revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture ... the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we will win the war! View quote
Buenaventura Durruti