Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets

Mother Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Sean Sweeney

Flag staff tips to bayonets to sabers is really the lifeblood (of the Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard).

Giuseppe Mazzini

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

Rutherford B. Hayes

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

W. S. Gilbert

All bayonets are bad.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Ron Carey

would not have raised any flags for me.

Sheila Lee

Separating these two legislative initiatives would be like separating the flag from the Pledge of Allegiance,

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Robert Martinez

On her first throw, she threw over 140 feet. It was a throw that could have won the whole thing, and then I saw the red flag go up. She scratched on the third throw, and I think that kind of rattled her.

Meredith Vieira

But some people wrap themselves in the flag ? I mean, that's what some liberals are against.

Craig Ross

Four successive national anthems -- it was just an unbelievable sight. To have the New Zealand flag raised four times ... very moving, very emotional, and just great for our sport.

Kurt Woerner

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

Milton Smith

Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.

Garry Donna

Lawrence North is a very special team. They have chemistry, no problems and just play. In our lifetime there'll be nothing like this (again).

Lino Spiteri

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns

David Davies

We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson - to market the sport,

Mike Metcalf

I never thought I'd ever go to a Lawrence road game.

Tony Banks

The Lawrence that is written about is not the Lawrence I know.

Dave Brown

Obviously, ratings are the lifeblood of what we do.

Vernon Swaback

The paths and trails are the lifeblood of the community.

David Nevins

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

James Whitcomb Riley

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Dean Koontz

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Blaise Pascal

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Rich Knighten

We're getting hundreds of tips all over Mexico.

Lee Humphrey

I don't know about that. I don't know if he can take any tips from me. We play two different sports.

Edgar Cayce

Tips for a long lifeKeep sweet, keep friendly, keep loving, if ye would keep young

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.