Quotes on Coattails

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?