#scratch

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #desert #freedom #garden #guts

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#i #life #never #punched #real

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. ↗

— Marina Oswald

#heart #like #memory #scratching

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#find #pagan #scratch #spoiled #you

A tickle, an itch, and a scratch walk into a bar while I was in the corner drinking a thermos full of epidermis, and I thought, this must be what love feels like.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bar #itch #scratch #tickle #love

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #because #ears #especially #furry

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#every #like #me #scratch #season

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#contemplation #even #exhaust #few #few people

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#error #finger #gets #her #locomotive

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ↗