Chop Quotes

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. (Henry Ford)
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. View quote
P. L. Travers
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. View quote
Auguste Rodin
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process. View quote
Freddie Hubbard
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. View quote
Daniel Handler
... the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures. View quote
Jack Valenti
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time. (Marisa Miller)
Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside. View quote
Toni Morrison
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web ... Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop. View quote
Neal Shusterman
You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around. View quote
Rick Riordan
We could have chopped down the sycamore with this. View quote
Brian Jacques
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer. (Jennifer Weiner)
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends. View quote
Jennifer Lee
I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort. View quote
Armie Hammer
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls. View quote
Gloria Reuben