Quotes by Ornery I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die. Jimmy Piersall ornery doctors years All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. Mark Twain ornery kings way The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us. Philip Yancey ornery unlikely people the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. Ralph Ellison ornery wonderful world Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Roy Wilkins ornery fighting should The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. Wallace Smith Broecker ornery climate self