Oakley, Annie (Quotes)
“Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success.”
“For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.”
“My mother and sisters thought my prowess with the gun was just a little tomboyish”
“I would like to see every woman know how to handle [firearms] as naturally as they know how to handle babies.”
“My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.”
“A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys…And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.”
“God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.”
“I am, indeed, very grateful for your many kind words in my obituary. How such a report started I do not know. I am thankful to say I am in the best of health.”
“After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.”
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megan renee nazaroff
i love this web site!!!!!!!!!!
it is awsome, it really helped me out wi my project.
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gretchen
Thanks Megan – glad you enjoy it!
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stephanie
i loved this it really helped with my report i am doing a huge annie oakley report on her ! how did u create this page that svery interesting u would want to do it on annie oakley y her? email me so we can talk about her!!!
love the page hun
gretchen
Annie is some distant relative in my family tree. There’s also a good article about Annie Oakley here. And Bull’s-Eye is a fabulous book about her life with a lot of photos as well.
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megan renee nazaroff
hey i ma looking for odd things about annie oakley and cant seem to find it.
please help!!!!!!!!!!!!
gretchen
What kinds of details? The links in my comment above might be good places to start. You can probably find that Bulls-Eye book at your local library.
megan nazaroff
thank you so much!!!!!
it really helped, and i got an A. but now i have another part of the assinment i have to do. your website has been awsome!!!!!will tell alot of people.
<3 big fan
margie esrel
how did you obtain those quotes? i tried college websites like gale and found nothing. how did you find them? they gotta be fake.
gretchen
I assure they are not fake. I’ve collected them from the Internet, books and museums. Google them.
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bekah
this helped so much!!!!
tracy
i really enjoyed after reading your whole bokk
tracy
now i can breath out and in after reading all this quote.
hope to read all of your book as posible
megan
sweet i love these
hailey
thanks for the website i was worried i wasn’t going to be able to write the famous quote i am 9 but turned in my report and got a 100%
thanks,
hailey
whitney
your website is so awsome. it helped me with school project, has so much info i just cant choose.
jerica
i love annie oakley she proved that boys arent superoir to girls. like they all think that girls cant play football but im better thsan all the guys in my family ny uncle told me thAT a week before he died
Shay
I am related to annie, but i am so glad that i am. I have learned all about her just to know. Only because of me being related to her. and now, i am doing a huge majorly huge paper on her. i have used this site so many times on my paper! I am so happy that i found this website! Thank you soooooooooo much.
Shay
gretchen
You’re very welcome Shay! I’m also a big Annie fan…and if you’re related to her, too, then somewhere in the past our family tree connects.
Shay
Shay
kacie
well all girls can do anything that they set there mind to i have learned that throughout my life and annie oakly is a great example of that
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sheila
yess it helps alot thanks soo much! got alli need for a project gracias!
Jess
Do any of you know how or where to find a cheap annie oakley costume? I’m doing a huge project worth 70% of my grade this quarter.
gretchen
No idea. Maybe try Googling it or check some antique or thrift stores.
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Marie
hello i am doing a school project and this website really helped me and i love it!!!!
faith
I love Annie Oakley.
We are having a wax muesem at the PAC.
Please Come.
Faith Shirley
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miranda
thanks a lot you really helped me with my project on taylor swift i am 6 years old
Shelby
Thank you so much I am doing a HUGE 3rd quarter progect about her. By HUGE I mean 300 points of my B- grade
Shelby
Thank you for this. My Project is 300 points of my grade
Kelly
Thank you SO much!! I have to do a research report on her, and this was a BIG help. I love to learn about my state’s [Ohio] history!
Kay
this is some awesome quots that she said.
Kay
i got an A on my thing that i as doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gretchen
Fantastic! Glad these helped.
Amy
She’s my great great great aunt!!! From “For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.” I know she’s my aunt!!
lauren
this website is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!from looking at other notes it helps a lot with school projects just like it did for me.I love annie oakley she i an awsome person.she taught me that girls can do anything guys can. at my school all the guys are always saying they are better than girl. now i can show them that we are all equal
gretchen
Thanks Lauren – glad you like it.
Savannah
Thank you so much i really needed some Annie Oakley quotes for a HUGE project that I am doing for school.