Forts Quotes
68 quotes by 67 authors
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
— Daniel Boone
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A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
— Horatio Nelson
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to…
— Madeleine Stowe
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have…
— Demosthenes
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .…
— Red Cloud
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I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
— Zach Galifianakis
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
— Calamity Jane
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I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my…
— Armie Hammer
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache?…
— Peter Fonda
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
— Danny Glover
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
— David Lynch
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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and…
— Rabih Alameddine
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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a…
— Meriwether Lewis
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
— John Ensign
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It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.
— Cynthia Lewis
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We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
— John Wayne
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
— Francis Parkman
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same…
— Kanye West
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What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the…
— Mark Steyn
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