Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mackenzie Astin

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Haruki Murakami

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Joycelyn Elders

Nobody with a criminal record would ever be allowed to buy a gun. All assault weapons would be banned, completely. And everybody who still possesses a gun license would receive mandatory education and training by professionals on how to handle a gun. After all, I can't drive my car until I pass a test proving I know how to handle a car.

Joycelyn Elders

[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.

Joycelyn Elders

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

Joycelyn Elders

Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.

Joycelyn Elders

I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

Joycelyn Elders

Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.

Kanye West

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

Willem Dafoe

If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

Ronald Reagan

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

Ronald Reagan

This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

Wole Soyinka

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

Will Rogers

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

Will Rogers

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Will Rogers

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Wes Moore

They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

Ziggy Marley

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Sarah Shahi

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

Warren Ellis

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

Warren Buffett

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

Vladimir Lenin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Will Patton

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

William Gurnall

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Warren Zevon

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

Voltaire

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

Walter F. Mondale

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

William Sadler

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

William S. Burroughs

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Woody Guthrie

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

Woody Guthrie

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Woody Allen

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

William J. Clinton

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...