We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band's just as killer... It seems surreal that there's no more Tom Petty, in person.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.