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Top 25 Jim Bishop Quotes (2025 Update)

Jim Bishop Quote: “Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

1. “Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.”

2. “A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”

3. “Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.”

4. “God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

5. “It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

6. “Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

7. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.”

8. “Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.”

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Jim Bishop Quote: “Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.”

9. “Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.”

10. “Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.”

11. “A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds – a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.”

12. “True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds – a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”

13. “The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.”

14. “To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.”

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Jim Bishop Quote: “Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.”

15. “Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story.”

16. “What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”

17. “At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.”

18. “Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.”

19. “It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.”

20. “A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”

21. “I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.”

22. “A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.”

23. “Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “No,” she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: “I want them to see what they’ve done.”

24. “No,” she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: “I want them to see what they’ve done.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Three weeks ago a man who had called himself Lee H. Oswald had rented Box 6225.”

25. “Three weeks ago a man who had called himself Lee H. Oswald had rented Box 6225.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Believe me, all of you, when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, at least believe on the strength of what I am doing.”

26. “Believe me, all of you, when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, at least believe on the strength of what I am doing.”

Jim Bishop Quote: “Yes, sir.” “I don’t know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found.” The disorder of the apartment.”

27. “Yes, sir.” “I don’t know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found.” The disorder of the apartment.”

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