Ornery Quotations

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.