Feller Quotes

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' - Alison Krauss

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. - David Rockefeller

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats. - Bob Feller

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. - Nelson Rockefeller

Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. - Bible

Why they call a feller that keeps losin' all the time a good sport gits me. - Kin Hubbard

While we transferred sovereignty today, we need to be honest with the American people that this struggle is far from over... Security in Iraq is worse now than it was right after the fall of Baghdad and may deteriorate further. The Iraqi security forces cannot handle the challenge alone, reconstruction has barely started, and massive unemployment has left many frustrated and even desperate. - Jay Rockefeller

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands. - Bob Feller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. - David Rockefeller

When the most senior officials in the Bush administration had already forcefully and repeatedly stated their conclusions publicly. - Jay Rockefeller