By an odd coincidence, some famous space-related quotations from several different sources are linked to the date May 25th. On May 25, 1977, Star Wars — a movie by the…
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The (Pit) Bull Heard ‘Round the World…BullThe (Pit) Bull Heard ‘Round the World…
Every four years, the American presidential election campaign generates a new batch of oft-cited political quotes. On September 3, 2008, former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin…
as American as apple pie
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George Zimmerman
H. Rap Brown (a.k.a. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
Historical quotes
idioms
July 27
Kerner Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Phrase origins
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Sixties
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Trayvon Martin
Violence is as American as cherry pie
As American as apple pie, cherry pie – and violence…
Apple trees are not native to America. They originated in Central Asia and were grown in Asia and Europe long before European colonists brought them to North America. However, as…
Barack Obama
celebrity quotes
December 11
December 21
Fred Shapiro
If you like your health care you can keep it
June 15
Phil Robertson
Political quotes
Santa is white
Santa just is white
Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun
Top Quotes of 2013
Top Quotes of the year
Wayne LaPierre
Yale Book of Quotations
What were the “top quotes” of 2013?
I recently looked through a couple dozen lists of “top” and “best” quotes of 2013 and came to a disappointing conclusion. In terms of truly memorable quotations that generated new…
The Top Quotes of 2012 – and some of the top “top quotes” lists of 2012…
Every December, various pundits, writers and media outlets publish lists of what they consider to be the the year’s “top” or “best” quotations — either in general or within a…
The Top Quotes of the Year in 2009
Below, in chronological order, are my picks for the top quotations of 2009 — the quotes that seemed to get the most attention during the past year in the news…
Is Nixon’s November 7, 1962 rant a “teachable moment”?
Long before dogged news coverage of the Watergate scandal helped force Richard M. Nixon to resign as President in 1974, he disliked the press. In fact, throughout his long political…