Milkman Quotes

• Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.

  Henry Rollins

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.

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• Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Doors, Democracy

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• It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

  Toni Morrison

  Becoming, Habit, Concentration

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• My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

  Karl Malden

  Father, Milk

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

  Max Cannon

  Way, Seems

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• Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Democracy, Hours

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• I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

  Frank Loesser

  Morning, Stairs, Breeze

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

  Christopher Morley

  Wise, Dog, Dark

  Christopher Morley (1944). “The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944”, [New York] : Harcourt, Brace

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• I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Degrees

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• ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Night, Doors

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• Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Worry, Goats

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• Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

  Georges Bidault

  Morning, Freedom, Bells

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• As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

  Adam Michnik

  Freedom, Dark, Democracy

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• If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

  Toni Morrison

  Air, Ifs

  Shirley Marie Jordan, Toni Morrison (1986). “An Analysis of the Female Experience in the Novels of Toni Morrison”

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• One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Doors, Democracy

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• It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

  Jacqueline Rayner

  Depressing, Morning, People

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• My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Home, Airplane

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• I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

  Gerard Way

  Superhero, Robins, Fans

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• I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Home, Infidelity

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• Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Thinking, Ties, House

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• I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

  Ann M. Martin

  Horse, School, Independent

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• She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

  Willy Russell

  Husband, Feminist, Tea

  "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.

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• How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Vanity, Tails

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Father, Half

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