Brave Quote by Lydia Sigourney

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl

“They are almost all gone now - the legions of young men who saved the world in the years just before I was born.…

— Daniel James Brown

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the…

— Brenda Peterson

“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great…

— Dee Brown

“On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns I heard…

— Kofi Awoonor

“They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out…

— Cormac McCarthy

The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no…

— Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings,…

— Henry Vaughan

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

— Henry Fielding