Jim Himes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.
-- Jim Himes

#Blue #Oysters #England
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.
-- Jim Himes

#Zero #Games #Political
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.
-- Jim Himes

#Wine #Beer #Oysters
I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives of your opponents. But more and more, we're in a world where leaders have to speak up, and speak in strong moral terms.
-- Jim Himes

#Strong #Believe #Leader
I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion should be a source of values. If you believe that, for God's sake, act on those values.
-- Jim Himes

#Religious #Taken #Believe

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

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