Eric Harper quote: "I got out of my chair and waded into the water, which was about three feet deep. I rolled him over and he was unconscious, his lips had a purple tint. He wasn't breathing. I picked the boy up in my arms and whistled for assistance."

I'm happy things turned out the way it did and appreciate that people are thankful, but we were just...
ERIC HARPER

Once I got to the boy, it's weird, but any feelings of being scared or terrified kind of left me. I ...
ERIC HARPER

I was really proud to work there that day.
ERIC HARPER

I'm painfully middle class.
VALERIE HARPER

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ...
VALERIE HARPER

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage...
VALERIE HARPER

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you...
VALERIE HARPER

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
VALERIE HARPER

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
VALERIE HARPER

Life does not owe me a shred.
VALERIE HARPER

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER

I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to...
HILL HARPER

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra...
MOLLY HARPER

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt...
ROY HARPER

I grew up listening to Switchfoot. I love Switchfoot; they're a great band. John Foreman is awes...
SHANE HARPER

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite...
MOLLY HARPER

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER

It's a privilege to have a concealed weapons permit. Having no oversight is scary. We especially wan...
ADRIA HARPER

By the time the public gets to see the records, it's already too late.
ADRIA HARPER

I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER

This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend,...
ADRIA HARPER

It's an issue of public importance that's pretty critical at this period.
ADRIA HARPER

It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work don...
ADRIA HARPER

To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER

Public records are critical for the public's oversight. It's all potentially relevant and useful inf...
ADRIA HARPER

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you c...
HARPER LEE

Now, 75 years [after

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......
HARPER LEE

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions......
HARPER LEE

Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market fo...
MOLLY HARPER

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."

Jen turned and punched hi...
HARPER LEE

Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
HARPER LEE

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...
HARPER LEE

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...
HARPER LEE

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...
HARPER LEE

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo...
HARPER LEE

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think no...
HARPER LEE

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, ...
RALPH HARPER

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n...
HARPER LEE

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gon...
HARPER LEE

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE

It's not time to worry yet
HARPER LEE

There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE

Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE

Pass the damn ham, please.
HARPER LEE

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no m...
HARPER LEE

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our ...
HARPER LEE

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout
HARPER LEE

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
HARPER LEE

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, w...
HARPER LEE

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to wi...
HARPER LEE

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C...
HARPER LEE

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor t...
HARPER LEE

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't yo...
HARPER LEE

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gar...
HARPER LEE

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEE

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll...
HARPER LEE

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
HARPER LEE

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g...
HARPER LEE

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.
HARPER LEE

Atticus, you must be wrong."

"How's that?"

"Well, most folks seem to think t...
HARPER LEE

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g...
HARPER LEE

Before I can live with other folks, Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide...
HARPER LEE

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou...
STEPHEN HARPER

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of In...
GREGG HARPER

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
HARPER LEE

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a pun...
MOLLY HARPER

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car th...
HILL HARPER

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
STEPHEN HARPER

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If...
STEPHEN HARPER

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you a...
BRYCE HARPER

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's n...
HARPER LEE

My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' we...
HILL HARPER

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of mu...
BEN HARPER

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulfu...
BEN HARPER

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from...
BEN HARPER

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
BEN HARPER

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or...
BEN HARPER

If you don't like my fire, Then don't come around Cause I'm gonna burn one down.
BEN HARPER

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a...
BEN HARPER

It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away.
BEN HARPER

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now i know I've made the mistake in the past. But n...
BEN HARPER

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would comm...
HILL HARPER

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER

For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever...
BOB HARPER

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...
HARPER LEE

Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last e...
MOLLY HARPER

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Bost...
MOLLY HARPER

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h...
HARPER LEE

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you ha...
BOB HARPER

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
HARPER LEE

My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
BEN HARPER

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i...
STEPHEN HARPER

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get...
ROY HARPER

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's ...
BEN HARPER

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - '...
HILL HARPER

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati...
BEN HARPER

Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or...
BRYCE HARPER

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
BRYCE HARPER

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fix...
BRYCE HARPER

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continen...
HILL HARPER

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...
HARPER LEE

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subj...
HARPER LEE

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned t...
HARPER LEE

The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...
BEN HARPER

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me n...
HILL HARPER

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER

I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local p...
MOLLY HARPER

We have an aggressive team offensively. They swing the bats. When they get things going they hit a l...
BRIAN HARPER

The bullpen did a great job.
BRIAN HARPER

Our job is to develop guys to perform in the big leagues. And the big leagues are all about winning ...
BRIAN HARPER

On paper we have it all ? speed, power, defense, solid pitching. We should have a pretty solid team.
BRIAN HARPER

Opening day is always exciting. We have a talented group of players and if we do the right things an...
BRIAN HARPER

I think Kirby kind of made everyone feel like they had a special relationship with him. I know I fel...
BRIAN HARPER

I remember rushing up and hugging him and all the laughs coming back to me.
BRIAN HARPER

We had to turn them away and couldn't serve food and no power we could hardly see and had no TV.
BRIAN HARPER

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.
BRIAN HARPER

Once again Moseley threw a great game. That's three in a row.
BRIAN HARPER

It will really be a valuable thing for the downtown ... a genuine community center.
BOB HARPER

I like to say we are the 7-Eleven of education. People can come in and pick up what they need. Work ...
BOB HARPER

She is really a wonderful person and student. And she has been a part of adult education for five de...
BOB HARPER

We don't make fun of them. It's an inspirational show, and the contestants are so courageous. We're ...
BOB HARPER

It's not a property tax. It's strictly a hotel tax.
BOB HARPER

I think we only had one of those, years ago, and we haven't contemplated it at all, since. Actually,...
BOB HARPER

It's all about lifestyle change.
BOB HARPER

Is it easy? No! ... It has to be a conscious decision.
BOB HARPER

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'
BOB HARPER

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don&#...
HILL HARPER

The real classroom is out in the field.
BOBBY HARPER

I've been hunting since I was big enough to sit on my daddy's knee. I was raised to hunt and to hunt...
BOBBY HARPER

When we met, we just blended. We met as strangers and remained friends.
BOBBY HARPER

It would be nice to have the white boys there.
BOBBY HARPER

Hunting is about ethics and character. If you have good character you will become a good hunter.
BOBBY HARPER

People say that hunter's 'kill' game, that's not true. Murderers 'kill;' sportsman 'harvest' wildlif...
BOBBY HARPER

When you keep a child hunting and fishing, you keep them out of the courts. You keep them out of tro...
BOBBY HARPER

Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find w...
BOBBY HARPER

Cheney should have made sure of his target before he pulled the trigger. He wasn't being careful.
BOBBY HARPER

I advise people to wear blaze orange hunting clothing, not orange camouflage. Blaze orange will save...
BOBBY HARPER

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the ba...
STEPHEN HARPER

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young m...
HILL HARPER

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a...
ROY HARPER

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thi...
HILL HARPER

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.
BRYCE HARPER

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
BEN HARPER

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break...
HILL HARPER

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
BEN HARPER

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There are a number of Hebrew words about salv...
MICHAEL HARPER

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.
HILL HARPER

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o-clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes...
HARPER LEE

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...
HARPER LEE

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has e...
STEPHEN HARPER

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people w...
STEPHEN HARPER

The prime minister told the House in response that he had 'met the families and had long discussions...
STEPHEN HARPER

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.
RICK HARPER

To use that photo to imply that Mr. Duceppe and I share some sort of agenda other than obviously opp...
STEPHEN HARPER

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, &...
HILL HARPER

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor...
STEPHEN HARPER

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to s...
STEPHEN HARPER

I always say, it doesn't matter how busy I am and how early in the morning it is. The one thing I ca...
STEPHEN HARPER

Roman was amazing -- free-throw line, inside points. I told him, 'You're going back inside. To heck ...
TONY HARPER

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and ...
BRYCE HARPER

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.
HILL HARPER

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and beco...
ROY HARPER

Everybody is kind of looking at how we're going to provide these services. The convention center and...
ANDREW HARPER

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
BEN HARPER

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based ...
STEPHEN HARPER

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign amb...
STEPHEN HARPER

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.
HILL HARPER

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me...
HILL HARPER

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recessio...
STEPHEN HARPER

We want to advance real scientific research, ... Discovery Institute has never done - has never move...
CHARLES HARPER

Everyday has been sort of depressing.
WILLIAM HARPER

I got out of my chair and waded into the water, which was about three feet deep. I rolled him over and he was unconscious, his lips had a purple tint. He wasn't breathing. I picked the boy up in my arms and whistled for assistance.

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I got out of my chair and waded into the water, which was about three feet deep. I rolled him over and he was unconscious, his lips had a purple tint. He wasn't breathing. I picked the boy up in my arms and whistled for assistance.

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