Top 238 Policeman Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
I got to play with Jack Stewart for many years, and I appreciated that. He was a wonderful policeman to have on your team.
I had that whole banter with the police. My mates used to make up raps about Dad being a policeman, it's hilarious.
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
Do you know, I didn't play a policeman up until I was 40, and then suddenly that's what I have been asked to play.
As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.
Yes, I performed at the Secret Policeman's Ball at Radio City Music Hall and loved every minute.
As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"
I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.
I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".
My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.
