Cities Quote by Rick Riordan

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

— Walid Muallem

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to…

— Rick Riordan

“Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.” “No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.” “Will”

— Rick Riordan

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from…

— Rick Riordan

“Or maybe…” Frank hesitated. “What?” Percy asked. “Probably nothing,” Frank said. “Romans and Greeks have an old rivalry. Sometimes Romans use graecus as an…

— Rick Riordan

“Percy: “You asked Poseidon for… me?” Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of…

— Rick Riordan

I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated…

— Rick Riordan

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves,…

— Tim Huelskamp

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What…

— Ismail Haniyeh

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite.…

— Laini Taylor