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“You may be a redneck if . . . your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.”
Jeff Foxworthy
“When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.”
Stephen Wright
“This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
Charlie Brown
“There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it”
Mark Twain
“He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one spoke to me. He asked me if the driver had asked me to stand up? I said, 'yes.' He asked me why I didn't stand up, ... I told him I didn't think I should have to stand up. So I asked him: 'Why do you push us around?' And he told me, 'I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest.'”
Rosa Parks
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still”
Chinese Proverbs
“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake
“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
Harry S Truman
“Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.”
Will Rogers
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
David Hume