Sent Quotes

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

Love, Keep, Heard

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

Nice, Saying, Letter

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran

Children, Living, Arrows

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield

Time, Father, Remember

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Good, Bad, Vote

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
Steven Wright

Night, Old, Last

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Rodney Dangerfield

Parents, Kids, Looking

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Wishes, Sign

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion, Best, Hell

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

Wisdom, Expect, Call

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Stupidity, College

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke

Women, Yourself, Enjoy

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin

Different, Place, Modern

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Peace, God

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Stupidity, College

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace

Once, Word, Abroad

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats

Great, Heart, Christian

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
Bette Davis

Husband, Her, Flowers

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington

Home, Mother, School

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Rejection, Off

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. Bush

History, Find, Free

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
Charles Stanley

Faith, Others, Lord

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
Billy Ray Cyrus

God, Perfect, Why

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
William Shatner

School, Else, Read

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull

Men, Today, Battle

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Family, Business, Whose

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly Parton

School, Husband, Five

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.
Jennifer Aniston

Strange, Cookies, Underwear

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott

Heart, May, Broken

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