Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Longstreet

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

Abraham Whipple

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

John B. Hood

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Zebulon Pike

Each Pawnee presented them with a horse, gave a pipe to smoke to the Osage to whom he had made the present. In this manner were eight horses given.

Kenneth H. Cooper

I've got many examples of people who have been exercising for 15 years and who are now 70, and their heart rate is the same as when they were 50.

Norman Schwarzkopf

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

James Stockdale

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

Jessica Lynch

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

Douglas Horton

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

National Institute

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

Lloyd Roberts

For this to happen between brothers that's just bending the limits of probability. It's a true tragedy.

Tom Tremont

That's the real growth area. There's only so much more you can do in bending sheet metal.

Stephanie Marquis

Keep your distance. If you know someone is infected, go to the doctor and get checked out. A blood test is the only way to confirm whether or not you have the mumps.

Mark Mershon

It boils the blood and chills the spine to see a sitting judge in the midst of a mob-directed money-laundering conspiracy.

Ken Young

Here was a guy who trained and lived right ... no drinking, no smoking. He was a national champion. But he didn't know he had high blood pressure. A lot of people don't know. That's why it's the silent killer.

Tupac Shakur

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

Vittorio Alfieri

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Vittorio Alfieri

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

Virgil

Want of pluck shows want of blood

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Woodrow Wilson

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

Larry Hagman

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

John Schwartz

We have a fifteen year lead in this market and we will retain our leadership.

Frank Thomas

Fifteen years now. I think of all the great teams we've had, and if we'd had this pitching, you never know how many rings we'd have won. But I'm just happy to be around and be a part of this.

Mitch Miller

Fifteen months ago I had a heart operation and the things they were able to do for me was because people like you raised money.

Steve Brown

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Richard Sherman

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Conan O'Brien

Donald Trump has come out in favor of shutting down Planned Parenthood. However, experts say, if he really wants Planned Parenthood to go under he should turn it into a Trump property.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Kevin Buckler

R.J. is better this year than ever. He's the total package.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,