Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his…

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

— Ambrose Bierce

“French soldiers literally drank the entire day, beginning with wine (un pauvre larme – “a little teardrop”), progressing to spirits (le café le pousse-café),…

— Geoffrey Wawro

Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those…

— Jonathan Kingdon

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question…

— Alan Blinder

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by…

— Gregory David Roberts

“He speaks with this tone like he owns things, but we know that even the baton stick in his hands is not his, that…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards…

— Adolf Hitler

“If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a…

— Laura Mullen

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

— Pablo Casals

No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

— Emily Dickinson

I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic!…

— Todd Blackledge

President Obama has brought this country back economically so far from where we were when he took office, and Hillary Clinton is going to…

— Joaquin Castro

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone…

— Tituss Burgess