Dan Groat Quotes

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

~ Dan Groat

Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.

~ Dan Groat

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

~ Dan Groat

It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.

~ Dan Groat

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

~ Dan Groat

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

~ Dan Groat

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

~ Dan Groat

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

~ Dan Groat

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

~ Dan Groat

There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.

~ Dan Groat

We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.

~ Dan Groat

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

~ Dan Groat

I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.

~ Dan Groat

How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

~ Dan Groat

People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

~ Dan Groat

Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it’s still one brain and one heart at a time.

~ Dan Groat

A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.

~ Dan Groat

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

~ Dan Groat

Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

~ Dan Groat

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

~ Dan Groat

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

~ Dan Groat

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

~ Dan Groat

He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.

~ Dan Groat

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

~ Dan Groat

Responsibility is definitely not something you feel, it is something you wear.

~ Dan Groat

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

~ Dan Groat

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

~ Dan Groat

Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.

~ Dan Groat

As I have aged, I’ve been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

~ Dan Groat

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.

~ Dan Groat

My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.

~ Dan Groat

It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man, wise is a big help to lots of men.

~ Dan Groat

Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.

~ Dan Groat

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

~ Dan Groat

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

~ Dan Groat

In this country our principles should not be silent.

~ Dan Groat

Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

~ Dan Groat

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

~ Dan Groat

The weak thrive on indulgence.

~ Dan Groat

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

~ Dan Groat