Plucked Quotes

Whether they want to be or not, ... they're plucked out of their lives by federal agents and told, 'You can't tell anybody what's happening, and you're going to be here for the next X-number weeks or years. If you don't agree, you're going to be put in a cell somewhere, because you already know too much.' Already, it's created kind of a tense situation; the whole investigation is intense, so there is a lot of pressure on these characters. - Brannon Braga

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. - Bible

We're dealing here with people who were plucked off rooftops or had to stay at the Superdome and many escaped with nothing. The dollar figure will get a lot greater. - Ed Conley

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets, plucked the sweetest showers
Will ne'er make grow again. - Thomas Percy

We admonished our mom and dad for taking the best one first. We thought there were five other candidates who should have been plucked sooner. - Bill Harmon

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe. - Voltaire

This is uncharted territory ... It's overwhelming. It's like somebody took your life and just plucked you out of it. - Julie Laviolette

These people are totally exhausted... Many of them were literally plucked off the roofs of their homes just six to eight hours before they were boarded onto a plane and flown here. - Pat McCrory

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; / Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. - Bible

These are individuals who have not been screened or taken to other emergency shelters. In some cases, they have been plucked from the water or rooftops. - Mitt Romney