Sent Quotes

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. (Rodney Dangerfield)
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. View quote
Knut Hamsun
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. View quote
Horace Walpole
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. View quote
William Cowper
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. View quote
William Butler Yeats
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. View quote
Henry Wotton
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. View quote
Kin Hubbard
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! View quote
Walter Scott
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. View quote
James Nasmyth
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. View quote
John Ruskin
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. View quote
Steven Wright
I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. View quote
Steven Wright
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. View quote
Alan Moore
I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference. View quote
Emo Philips
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. (Benny Hinn)
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. View quote
Birch Bayh