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Merle Haggard

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TYLER FARR Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
STURGILL SIMPSON I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with...
TANYA TUCKER It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h...
TRISHA YEARWOOD And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
WARREN ZEVON I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a...
JASON MCCOY If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomina...
DAVID ALLAN COE He [Somoza] may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other...
IRIS DEMENT Son of a bitch!
DAVID WELLS Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I...
LAURA BELL BUNDY Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The son of a bitch believes.
DON DELILLO I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We p...
DIERKS BENTLEY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!
KURT VONNEGUT Take this, you son of a bitch,
CURTIS SLIWA I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real r...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'll get you, you son of a bitch!
ROCKY MARCIANO Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"...
JOHN SCALZI I'm a wild son-of-a-bitch from Cripple Creek!
CHRIS MADSEN God, I’m a lucky son of a bitch.” - Christian Grey
E.L. JAMES Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
JOHN SCALZI Someone had to do it. That son of a bitch killed my President.
JACK RUBY I had Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on my show long before the general public caught up to them, ....
GLEN CAMPBELL My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch
JACK NICHOLSON I hear the guy yelling, 'You better not let me catch you, you son of a bitch,'
CHRIS BELL The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.
ELEANOR MEDILL PATTERSON The son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle.
LLOYD MANGRUM When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a ...
MERLE HAGGARD Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should...
MERLE HAGGARD 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
MERLE HAGGARD Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' ...
MERLE HAGGARD It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December th...
MERLE HAGGARD There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ran...
MERLE HAGGARD It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car...
MERLE HAGGARD The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can w...
MERLE HAGGARD At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
MERLE HAGGARD I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these...
MERLE HAGGARD He has this crazy style, and he has this mystique about him. He's still that way. You know, nobody k...
MERLE HAGGARD Buck influenced a lot of people, from The Beatles to me. Buck and I were in a lot of battles over th...
MERLE HAGGARD It's a wonderful thing to live as long as I have and to be appreciated and, well, just to be here fo...
MERLE HAGGARD Let's Get Out of Iraq
MERLE HAGGARD In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...
MERLE HAGGARD We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,
MERLE HAGGARD Boys, we've done found the prettiest city in America. You've got to see it.
MERLE HAGGARD We've been in many battles together (always on the same side). Over the last few years, we'd become ...
MERLE HAGGARD He was an asshole, so I hit him.
MERLE HAGGARD I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Reall...
MERLE HAGGARD They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and...
MERLE HAGGARD In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...
MERLE HAGGARD And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.
MERLE HAGGARD There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my ...
MERLE HAGGARD And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Behind every witch and her potions, is a son of a bitch who toyed with her emotions.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta...
JEWEL I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or ...
MELODIE RAMONE I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and M...
BRAD PAISLEY People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?
LARRY DIRITA I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bi...
JOEL ROSENBERG I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like ...
BUZZ OSBORNE Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You'll become the center of someone's world one day. And he'll be the luckiest son of a bitch on thi...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER A true capitalist is a thieving son-of-a-bitch, and a true socialist is an ignorant asshole. In betw...
BOBBY W. MILLER Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.
ROY ACUFF Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Will (Voice over): Sean, if the professor calls about that job tell him sorry, but I had to go and s...
GOOD WILL HUNTING Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a co...
WILBUR SMITH I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the...
HUGH JACKMAN The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger th...
OAKLEY HALL He who does not feel me is not real to me, therefore he does not exist. So, poof... vamoose, son of ...
JAY-Z You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
WILLIAM FAULKNER it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER

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MERLE HAGGARD The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
MERLE SHAIN Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAN One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of ...
MERLE KESSLER I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my...
MERLE DANDRIDGE My father and brothers were coal miners.
MERLE TRAVIS He wouldn't be seen as a Dukakis or a Kennedy, but it doesn't go that far. They've never heard of hi...
MERLE BLACK So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?'
She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames be...
CLAIRE MERLE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
CLAIRE MERLE For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't sta...
MERLE OLBERDING It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that w...
MERLE SHAIN She froze because she was not able to believe what happened.
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MERLE OLBERDING I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's b...
MERLE SHAIN A lot of (residents) have never been out of the state. All they know is working on a farm.
MERLE DERSCHEID The first half was picturesque. We couldn't have drawn it up any better. We were getting the ball in...
MERLE OLBERDING The public is only receiving one side of the story as all of the charges in their most sordid repres...
MERLE SMITH Only one person Saturday had the courage to admit that he was leaving his cat because of bird flu.
DANIELLE MERLE People told us stories of allergies or divorce.
DANIELLE MERLE Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
don't get
MERLE HODGE I can't say enough about those three girls. They've accepted different roles and that's got to be to...
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MERLE GILMORE We need to involve everybody. We will need to use all of our resources.
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TED HAGGARD It's not political -- it's authentically spiritual renewal.
TED HAGGARD Certainly I don't condone his comments,
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H. RIDER HAGGARD Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...
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H. RIDER HAGGARD ...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
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