Eighteen Quote by Meriwether Lewis

“Crete, May 1941. It was nearly five o’clock when the three soldiers reached the end of the olive grove. The dust-filled air shimmered in…

— Mark Ellis

“Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise, and walk their nightly round. -…

— Henry Fielding

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

— Paul Revere

“was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. I might have been…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till…

— John Crowe Ransom

“On the morning that they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat…

— Gabriel García Márquez

In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed…

— Suzanne Collins

I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven…

— Margaret Smith

“I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who…

— Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

“When a sailor’s drowned body was found tangled in lines over the port side, the men agreed he must have fallen overboard in the…

— Marcus Sakey

What happened when you were twelve?” “Oh, Mom offered to take us all out for dinner—us girls, Dad was out of town—to celebrate, but…

— Richelle Mead