Joseph Rodman Drake quote: "Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven."

Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasan...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure rob...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom'...
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
DRAKE

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.
DRAKE

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculat...
DRAKE

My life is mine to remember.
DRAKE

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
DRAKE

I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
DRAKE

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
DRAKE

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I d...
DRAKE

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day c...
DRAKE

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.
DRAKE

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities th...
DRAKE

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to suc...
DRAKE

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crus...
DRAKE

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they ...
DRAKE

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authen...
DRAKE

There are a lot of good women in New York.
DRAKE

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap...
DRAKE

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need...
DRAKE

I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal g...
DRAKE

Kanye West is my favorite artist.
DRAKE

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.
DRAKE

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the ...
DRAKE

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
DRAKE

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.
DRAKE

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love ...
DRAKE

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things e...
DRAKE

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to b...
DRAKE

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be eas...
DRAKE

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.
DRAKE

I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.
DRAKE

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons ...
DRAKE

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could d...
DRAKE

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to...
DRAKE

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, o...
DRAKE

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.
DRAKE

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.
DRAKE

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' ...
DRAKE

My mother made me truly appreciate women.
DRAKE

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
DRAKE

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very sel...
DRAKE

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breaku...
DRAKE

Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I k...
DRAKE

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.
DRAKE

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
DRAKE

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't...
DRAKE

I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had.
DRAKE

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I...
DRAKE

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would s...
DRAKE

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like hi...
DRAKE

One day you're going to remember me and how much i loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for l...
DRAKE

I'll never stop caring. But if decide to push me away, I'll go.
DRAKE

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren&#...
DRAKE

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag...
FRANCES RODMAN

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow...
FRANCES RODMAN

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
DENNIS RODMAN

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
DENNIS RODMAN

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
DENNIS RODMAN

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or...
DENNIS RODMAN

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
DENNIS RODMAN

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and ...
DENNIS RODMAN

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bed...
DENNIS RODMAN

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I co...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
DENNIS RODMAN

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
FRANCES RODMAN

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
DENNIS RODMAN

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
DENNIS RODMAN

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
DENNIS RODMAN

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
DENNIS RODMAN

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
DENNIS RODMAN

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
DENNIS RODMAN

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Mich...
DENNIS RODMAN

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all acros...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

We were getting cable TV on his watch.
DENNIS RODMAN

I do love animals,
DENNIS RODMAN

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin
FRANCES RODMAN

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
DENNIS RODMAN

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the...
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
DENNIS RODMAN

Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when yo...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans loo...
JACK RODMAN

Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a ...
PETER RODMAN

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
DENNIS RODMAN

You can love me or you can hate me
DENNIS RODMAN

Bad as I Wanna Be.
DENNIS RODMAN

It's in the top 10, ... Those people didn't think I was smart enough.
DENNIS RODMAN

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms wh...
DENNIS RODMAN

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill ...
DENNIS RODMAN

My rookie year, I was very immature.
DENNIS RODMAN

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoff...
DENNIS RODMAN

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a musc...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

We think both sides would gain by having more interaction. We would learn more about them, and perha...
PETER RODMAN

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
DENNIS RODMAN

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
DENNIS RODMAN

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
DENNIS RODMAN

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter...
DENNIS RODMAN

Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else
FRANCES RODMAN

Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human
FRANCES RODMAN

Our girls expect to win the mile relay. If we get beat, it's like shock to them. However fast somebo...
JACK RODMAN

International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.
JACK RODMAN

That supply will far exceed demand, meaning owners will find it increasingly hard to rent out their ...
JACK RODMAN

The scale of development here is unprecedented anywhere in the world.
JACK RODMAN

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK

We see it that the fight is still on and he knows that,
PETER RODMAN

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
RODMAN PHILBRICK

We didn't get the bounces we needed tonight. In a game like this, mistakes will kill you. But we hun...
NEIL RODMAN

I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is diffic...
DENNIS RODMAN

There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.
THELMA DRAKE

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
THELMA DRAKE

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Kor...
THELMA DRAKE

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure...
THELMA DRAKE

I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
LARRY DRAKE

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
LARRY DRAKE

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic tru...
LARRY DRAKE

I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or ...
LARRY DRAKE

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite ...
LARRY DRAKE

The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for my...
LARRY DRAKE

I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move...
LARRY DRAKE

I studied drama.
LARRY DRAKE

Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
LARRY DRAKE

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
LARRY DRAKE

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
LARRY DRAKE

I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
LARRY DRAKE

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren...
DRAKE BELL

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry an...
DRAKE BELL

Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
A...
NICK DRAKE

I know a lot of people were looking forward to Niagara Falls-Riverside, but no one in that gym in Ja...
BEN DRAKE

A lot of it is just chemistry. This is a real close group and they care about winning. That's the on...
BEN DRAKE

Then you have 25 wineries and enough fruit for 150 wineries and nobody makes money.
BEN DRAKE

This was a high level of competition. I feel lucky that we came out of this with three wins.
BEN DRAKE

All season long we've been real committed at the defensive end. When you've got five guys that reall...
BEN DRAKE

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when yo...
DRAKE BELL

My goal is to at least double that turnout. We need more people involved in the process.
BILL DRAKE

If you have someone with great potential, if you can start them off a little higher, you get better ...
BILL DRAKE

The digital signal is better, but how that affects listeners at various locations is yet to be deter...
BILL DRAKE

I don't think that HD radio is going to draw more people in. It's the programming that will have to ...
BILL DRAKE

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I ju...
DRAKE BELL

I used to go to San Diego all the time to hang out. My cousin played for the San Diego Padres, and m...
DRAKE BELL

We didn't play with the same fire and intensity that got us here. We got here with a lot of work and...
CEDRIC DRAKE

Just getting here is a tribute to our guys' hard work. We had to change our mindset this year. We ha...
CEDRIC DRAKE

It was tough. I tried to be positive and not come down on them for making mistakes. We got comfortab...
CEDRIC DRAKE

The talent was there, but we had to bring the winning out. Sometimes you can grow accustomed to losi...
CEDRIC DRAKE

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I&...
DRAKE BELL

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-...
DRAKE BELL

If I catch one of my fans saying something improper, a gay slur or any derogatory term, I instantly ...
DRAKE BELL

You had two teams out there going for everything. Going for the lines, going for the tough shots. Th...
KEITH DRAKE

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughl...
FRANCIS DRAKE

Most parents don't recognize the importance of bright light and how it can affect circadian rhythms.
CHRISTOPHER DRAKE

He said 'Guys, I apologize for the situation I put you in, I put everyone in a bad spot a little bit...
DALLAS DRAKE

Unfortunately, I'm one of the guys that gets too emotional. So I've got to learn to pull the reins b...
DALLAS DRAKE

The Phoenix game the other night had 27 penalties in it, so that's pretty much the whole game somebo...
DALLAS DRAKE

All three goals came on turnovers. They took advantage of us. We've got to find a way to not turn th...
DALLAS DRAKE

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.
DALLAS DRAKE

This thing has dragged on for so long that it has developed a mythology of its own. People who start...
TOM DRAKE

I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by to...
DRAKE MILLIGAN

There was such a realness about Elvis. He never really changed from that humble boy from Tupelo, Mis...
DRAKE MILLIGAN

Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.
DRAKE BELL

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific ...
DRAKE BELL

We've only been able to identify one person in all of the photos so far. But they've been on a long ...
AMY DRAKE

This is definitely something special. The national spotlight is on Houston, and we're happy to host ...
ANNA DRAKE

They were barking this morning. There are dogs throughout our lobby kind of hanging out with their o...
ANNA DRAKE

Maybe it's in the back of our minds. But we're not trying to live up to anyone's expectations. We ha...
ANDREA DRAKE

We have so many strong hitters. There is not a weak link. You can't focus on just one person. I thin...
ANDREA DRAKE

The power is not always there. But our placement was good. We mixed up the pace and picked up our pa...
ANDREA DRAKE

Last year was sort of wet in the spring, and this year may end up being one of the driest Marches in...
MICHAEL DRAKE

She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.
R.M. DRAKE

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.
DRAKE BELL

It's more positional play now. Before, if you got beat, your first instinct was to grab and hook and...
DALLAS DRAKE

We're getting a lot of extensions.
ANNA DRAKE

There's no posturing, there's no calculation in whether or not something plays to a crowd. He's pass...
STEVE DRAKE

It would give us a voice.
CHRIS DRAKE

He just involves them with what he's doing and excites them about his interests.
CHRIS DRAKE

One of the best things I ever did was hire the guy. He's always thinking of new, creative ways to un...
CHRIS DRAKE

I played with Keith in Phoenix when he was pretty heavy and he scored 50 goals. I've seen Keith play...
DALLAS DRAKE

He (Bradley) needs to work on everything. He's still young. He's still raw. With everyone, we're try...
DARRYL DRAKE

I'm not going to say it was the prettiest game, but I think the third period, we played solid. 'Sand...
DALLAS DRAKE

The singeing of the King of Spain's Beard.(of the expedition to Cadiz)
FRANCIS DRAKE

I actually think it's hilarious. It's really to the point.
GEORGE DRAKE

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
MONICA DRAKE

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in fron...
DRAKE BELL

If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thoma...
DARRYL DRAKE

That's going to be a rivalry going on for a long time. Jacks loves that, I think he loves playing ag...
DALLAS DRAKE

They're getting the chance of a lifetime. It's not going to come along like this every year for them...
DALLAS DRAKE

The hardest thing to do sometimes going down the stretch, especially when we're not going to make th...
DALLAS DRAKE

I feel there's a lot of distrust throughout the town, and I think I can bring trust back between the...
RICHARD DRAKE

The lake has risen 13 feet in four years, but if we do go into a drought again, we're right back whe...
CHRIS DRAKE

They're going to take everything very slow in China. It's probably going to be a decade before China...
RICK DRAKE

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.
DRAKE BELL

An AOL counter-bid is not out of the question. The nice thing about a Cox deal is that it would be p...
DRAKE JOHNSTONE

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.
DRAKE JOHNSTONE

Nobody deserves it more than Hines because nobody has worked as hard as him. I saw it [in high schoo...
DARRYL DRAKE

I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary ...
DRAKE BELL

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

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