A Quote by Rod McKuen

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

Rod McKuen

Quote Topics

Bastards Born People Work

Quote Author

Rod McKuen
American - Poet
April 29, 1933 - January 29, 2015

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

John Updike

They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

Bobby Fischer

In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many American bastards left to kill. a And as a child I had to say, "Two American bastards." And that was my education.

Park Yeon-mi

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

Fritz Zwicky

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Dan Hill

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Peter Drucker

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

James Russell Lowell

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Julian Assange

[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.

Rush Limbaugh

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Joy Baluch

Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

Richard Paul Evans

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

George R. R. Martin

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.