John Mercer Patton

Famous quotes containing the words john, mercer and/or patton:

    “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
    —Harvey Thew, screenwriter, John Bright, screenwriter, and Lowell Sherman. Lady Lou (Mae West)

    “We’re after the same rainbow’s end waitin’ round the bend, my Huckleberry friend.”
    —Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    “If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)