“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.” LooksPlayKidsBoysTeacherPicksGunSticksFakeBananasPreschool Author:Dean Norris
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.” WarEndsMovingPoliticalPoliticsLibertyPicksGunIntriguingProperty Rights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.” IfsLongCareFallPicksGunDeterminationDon't CareShootingI Don't CareAnarchyHeresy Author:Che Guevara
“It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.” PeopleYearsChildrenLeaderStreetsSurvivalPicksGunCarefulWideIntimateRebelSomalia Author:K'naan
“Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.” PeopleWantDoeHelpingUseGuyGrewHeroSkillsGrew UpPicksGunShameHelping OthersReluctantAnti HeroSergio Leone Author:Antoine Fuqua
“We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.” Has BeensFactsActorsIndividualNumbersSuccessfulPicksGunEncouragementThreatIdeologyPlotStoppingLoneLone Wolf Author:Barack Obama
“The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.” StreetsShapesPicksGunRays Author:Claes Oldenburg
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.” SidesPresidentPicksGun Author:Hillary Clinton
“You have to keep in mind that there's a number of logistical hurdles that they have to jump through in Europe in order to get explosives or guns. So for example, the Villejuif shooter in April 2015 who planned to attack a church: According to French press reports, he was instructed by ISIS to go to a sandwich shop, and the weapons would be waiting for him in a car parked outside. He was just told the make of the car, told to go there, told to pick them up. Putting that kind of attack together, using encrypted communications or other means, is not easy.” MindKindMeanWould BeTogetherOrderEasyWaitingChurchNumbersCarExampleCommunicationWeaponsPicksGunEuropePressesReportsShopsAprilIsisSandwichesExplosivesHurdleShooter Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi
“Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.” IfsWantSometimesPicksGunRebellion Author:Huey Newton
“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.” IfsCountryLawStrongPicksGunMurderRateDataGun ControlCherries Author:Thomas Sowell
“As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.” MenReasonBodyWantedJobsYoungFeltPicksGunMachinesBonesYoung ManNo ReasonInvitedUpbringingMachine Guns Author:Pete Townshend
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” SometimesPeacePicksGunViolence And Peace Author:Malcolm X
“Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11” TwoLastsThreeBloodPicksGunStandingRoundsTrackDamageTemplesMetalsExplosionsBarrelsCollateralRouletteCollateral DamageWhere She WentChoose Me Book:Where She Went Source: Where She Went
“Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.” PicksGunNuclearBombsNuclear Bomb Author:James Rollins
“I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.” HomeKidsInspirePicksGunAthletePairsKnivesOlympicsMedalTrainersOlympic GamesLondon OlympicsOlympic Medals Author:Erick Barrondo
“I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.” WarKidsFightingEnjoyMilitaryPicksGunGladMartial ArtsManhood Author:Tom Hanks
“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].” IfsTodayGroupsDangerPicksGunAlcoholGun ControlSelectTobaccoFascistsFirearmsAmerican Society Author:John Dingell