American civil war Quote by Jeff Shaara

“Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee’s men from insufficient and unsound…

— Bill O'Reilly

“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss,…

— John Marsden

Army food: the spoils of war

— War Army

“Of the tens of thousands of men who died in combat in the war, possibly as many as half lost their lives in vain.…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the blade beating…

— Bernard Cornwell

“He wasn’t fond of vegetables aside from corn on the cob, hated anything green unless it was a gummy bear, and basically had the…

— Jill Shalvis

“They were carnivores. That means they ate meat. And they spent all their time hunting for meat. Meat, meat, meat. Lots of meat. Nothing…

— Max Candee

“Preparing vegetables, I had discovered, was an exacting art, almost as rigorous as closely reading Shakespeare, but the latter was a solitary occupation, while…

— Judith Newton

“They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.”

— E.M. Forster

“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.”

— David Mitchell

“One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The battle of the big belly is fought using the weapons of dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly, discipline.”

— Diamond Dallas Page