Hail Quotes

No man`s lifetime of work has better expressed the land of the free and the home of the brave. No man`s lifetime of work has given proof to the world that our flag is still there. John Wayne is in truth a star-spangled man whom so proudly we hail.

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We`re seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends. It`s a pretty city, you know.

St Michael`s was one of those very rarefied, very Anglo-Catholic establishments where they rejoiced in more religious paraphernalia and theatricality than the entire Vatican. More incense-swinging, more crucifixes, more gold tassels, more rose petals, more holy mothers, more God knows what. Three times a day they played the Angelus. When you heard it, you had to stop whatever you were doing, do the Hail Marys in your head, and then return to what you were doing. Like it would come in the middle of a Latin class. I`m just conjugating the love verb, amo, amas, amat, and doingggg! you have to stand up, go through the whole Angelus, mother-of-God thing and then crack on with amamus, amatis, amant. Sir! Because, if you didn`t, Whack! Cane. Belt. Education by fear. And the really funny thing was they wouldn`t tolerate bullying between peers. Prefects could bash you with a slipper, but you weren`t allowed to give each other a rough time. Like who do you think you are? You haven`t yet earned the privilege of being violent.

I`ve talked to my priest a lot. I used to have to call him or the shrink when there was an explosion, because I was really good at not talking to anybody until there was an explosion. My priest is this cool Italian from New York. We go down to his basement and he opens the wine. We smoke a cigarette and I have my confession. He sends me upstairs to do my Hail Mary`s. I mean, I`m no Holy Joe, but I have a strong belief. If I wasn`t Catholic I would have blown my brains out. I would pray to God. I would say, `Please can you send me just a little bit of daylight.` He talked me out of it and we started meeting. His name is Father Pete and he lives in New York. Father Pete put me back on the right track.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

I don`t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it`s pouring rain and then it`s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It`s just so confusing.

I`m a Catholic girl from Omaha, and then all of a sudden they spring this scene on me. Afterwards I had to go to confession. I said, Forgive me Father, for I have just bared my ass in front of the world. How many Hail Marys will it take to absolve me of that!" - on her strip scene in Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

Of all the filmed musical events of the past few decades, `Hail! Hail Rock `n` Roll` stands as one of the most significant, and Taylor`s vision for the film brought this event to unparalleled heights.

Snow, sleet, hail, ice, rain, floods. Did I say ice?

We had everything going. We got them to fourth down, and they threw up a Hail Mary and they caught it. It was a good play on their behalf.

Since I was commissioner, I asked (the company) to produce the data underlying the rates. The thing that was really different was hail and wind. The risk of natural disaster was much greater. That caused maybe 90% of the difference in the rates, between Northern Virginia and Austin.

Really, those are the only hopes that Edwards has of pulling anything out is if those two guys pull significant votes away from Kerry, ... I don`t expect that to happen, but those are the `Hail Marys.`