Rear Quotes

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
Joel Osteen

Blessings, Financial, Sow

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Colin Powell

Wrong, Unless, Commander

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death, Down, Another

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.
Darrell Royal

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber

Great, End, Himself

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
Susan Orlean

End, Game, After

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Paul Fussell

College, Anxiety, Known

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
Toni Morrison

Work, Women, Children

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
John Podhoretz

History, Him, American

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
Jennifer Lopez

Coffee, Serve, Using

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
Reba McEntire

Leaving, Brother, Mirror

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
Tim Allen

Trust, End, Woman

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
Jane Smiley

Children, Self, Friends

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.
Neal Schon

End, Anybody, Guys

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.
Denis Leary

Character, Enough, Pretty

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

Education, Ignorance, Foundation

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
Carol Vorderman

Family, Good, Big

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams

Test, Passed, Staff

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
Curt Weldon

Reason, Worry, Public

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.
John Sexton

Success, After, Place

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
William Bartram

Young, Birds, Helpless

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

City, Inside, Blocked

It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!
Jessica Ennis

Funny, School, End

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner

Human, Bring, Noble

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.
Joshua Chamberlain

Great, Rock, Moving

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
Francis Parkman

Great, Far, Against

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
Fritz Kreisler

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler

Deep, Thought, Moral

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet

Battle, Victory, Broken

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