Grants Quote by Shelby Foote Download Open image “Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.” — Shelby Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grants Learn From Experience Learning experience War
“We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be taken. Yet… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“As a West Point graduate, Grant had enjoyed an insider’s knowledge of military personnel during the war, but as a Washington outsider, he needed… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“But as those who lived through the Civil War died off, Grant’s reputation faltered. ... A generation that remembered war as mustard gas and… — Brady Carlson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I… — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
“Grant’s fortuitous move to Illinois on the eve of the election had monumental consequences, conveniently situating him in the president’s home state and overtly… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Grant’s postwar fame didn’t spare him the bane of his father-in-law’s glaring presence. After he and Julia settled into their Georgetown home, Colonel Dent… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“although he was not formally relieved until early November. Lincoln’s decision to cashier Frémont served as a cautionary tale for Grant, who noted, “The… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“At forty-six, Grant was still trim and fit, the youngest man elected president until then. Having weathered the crucible of war, he was a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes, Lee and Grant reached across to each other from their horses and shook hands. When they met again, Grant would… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags. — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
