Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it… — Winfield Scott Hancock Copy Share Image
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued. — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays… The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of his reign, England had to import almost all of its guns from abroad; by the time of his… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few,… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but… — Kate Siegel Copy Share Image
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image