Ward Quotes

See also Wards QuotesSee also Wards Quotes, Core English Vocabulary (W) Quotes

Some years ago I had a complete nervous breakdown, was dead broke and had to be put in a charity ward with 30 others. I was there 18 months and doctors didn`t give me long to live. So now each day to me is a special dividend, so I live it to the hilt. - response to gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who asked him why he was "trying to kill himself."

- Ernie Kovacs

I could haven been a ward of the state. I had like a lotta problems. I was just real different from everybody else. I was a lot smarter than them. So I just started to really rebel against my parents, I hated them a lot. They got real worried and sent me to a shrink. They just couldn`t handle it, I hated them so badly. I just couldn`t stand them. My parents didn`t like me at all. They just weren`t into what I was into.

- Nancy Spungen

I tell young actors today to join the Merchant Marines for a year, and I tell young women to volunteer in a hospital emergency ward if they can. You get to see different people, cultures, dress - it`s a marvelous education for an actor.

- Rod Steiger

John Ford was like a father to me, like a big brother. I got word that he wanted to see me at his home in Palm Springs, and when I got there, he said, "Hi Duke, down for the deathwatch?" "Hell no," I said, "you`ll bury us all." But he looked so weak. We used to be a triumvirate - Ford and me and a guy named Ward Bond. The day I went to Palm Springs, Ford said, "Duke, do you ever think of Ward?" "All the time," I said. "Well, let`s have a drink to Ward," he said. So I got out the brandy, gave him a sip and took one for myself. "All right, Duke," he said finally, "I think I`ll rest for a while." I went home, and that was Pappy Ford`s last day.

- John Wayne

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I`m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

- Reba McEntire

Hoffman is right. It`s much harder to get away with dirty little secrets like Ward Churchill - who apparently gamed the CU system for years - in the era of the blogosphere, when facts (not rumors) can be instantly reported. If I had simply published rumors, the story would never have caught on like it did.

- Charles Johnson

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

- Peter Greenaway

People who are saying the Lower 9th Ward shouldn`t be rebuilt or is totally damaged are absolutely wrong.

- Joe Brown

Jordan Godby and Jason Ward started in the middle. They helped tremendously. Herscher couldn`t run up the middle.

- Robert Gray

That`s welcomed, by Ward Churchill, because when you get scholars in the field, which these (standing committee) folks are not, then he will be vindicated.

- David Lane

I am just running to keep her (Goodman) on her toes, so she won`t forget what else is important in this ward - not just condo building.

- Christopher M. Clark

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

- Don DeLillo

We will continue to be aggressive. We have to be. We don`t have a lot of size. That`s kind of our style and our philosophy with Coach (Ward) Weidenbach. We have gap control and we get after people. We don`t have the luxury of being able to slug with people. We need good technique and getting 11 guys to the ball.

- Patrick Brown

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love`s a charity ward, you know.

- Lawrence Durrell

Men haven`t changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

- Stephen Lewis

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

- John Mortimer

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

- John Mortimer

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

- Al Nugent

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

- Alison Marquiss

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

- Ambesse Tolossa

(Starting cornerback Will Peterson, out since spraining an MCL Aug. 20 against the Panthers, continues to improve and might get significant playing time even if he doesn`t start. ... The Giants` three promising draft picks, running back Brandon Jacobs, defensive end Justin Tuck and cornerback Corey Webster, all of whom had great exhibition seasons, are anxious to get going. Jacobs, 6 feet 4, 267 pounds, has generated the most enthusiasm among the fans even though Derrick Ward will back up Barber.) I`m not worried about Sunday, ... I`ll be very calm before the game. And when coach yells for 27, 27 will be there.

- Angel Guzman

(At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.) My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn`t have the chance to be with her.

- Anthony Contreras

(D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said M.R. Beal initially got District business because it was minority-owned but has since performed as well as any of its bigger Wall Street competitors.) They are part of our minority contractors program, ... But they have also done a very good job for us in terms of getting us excellent rates on our bonds.

- Ariosto