American history Quotes by Markham Shaw Pyle

“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and that the…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“... in 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice, or objective…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“The reason all the 'intellectuals' – Sartre and Marx, Hemingway and Hellman – (. . .) are Leftists is that a defining characteristic of…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of First Downs,…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed. Any woman…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be…

— Markham Shaw Pyle