Shoulder Quotes

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway

Girl, Bad, Someone

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Sam Levenson

Birthday, End, Remember

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan

God, Loved, Surprise

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken

Someone, Woman, Put

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant

Before, After, Place

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
William Feather

Real, Until, Boss

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard

Person, Gravitate

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Nature, God, Freedom

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben

Humor, Mean, Remember

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Bryant H. McGill

Silent, Shall, Wings

Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Aesop

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor

Father, Nothing, Her

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
Gerald R. Ford

Life, Done, Around

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

Remember, Sure, Sign

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

Evil, Friends, Here

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
Billy Corgan

Through, After, Wrong

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Maria Sharapova

Mean, Surgery, Careers

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
Jackie Chan

Head, Metal, Pop

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
Francesca Annis

God, Someone, Thinking

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo

Birthday, Time, Wisdom

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
Ethel Waters

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
Miranda Lambert

Looking, Suspicious, Raised

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.
Clara Barton

Done, Him, Through

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
Daniel Craig

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
Patrick Swayze

Dad, Warriors, Guardian

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.
Ron Fournier

Deep, Country, Office

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.
Bruce Springsteen

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
Kevin Costner

Person, Why, Film

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
Stephen Harper

Government, Again, Playing

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