Rifle Quotes

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.