Common core Quote by Terry Marselle

“Another problem we found relates to the pedagogical method used in the Gettysburg Address exemplar that the Common Core calls “cold reading.” This gives…

— Terry Marselle

“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,…

— David Herbert Donald

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

— Dave Barry

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations…

— Oscar Wilde

As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these…

— Jeremy Denk

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw…

— Sarah Vowell

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered.…

— Arthur Quinn

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some…

— Neil Postman

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

— Mike Quigley

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

— Ernest Hemingway

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as…

— Edward Everett