top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Nationality quotes
"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
Explore more quotes by William Joyce
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
"But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says."
"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
"So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive."
"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
bottom of page