Bernard Cornwell Saxon Quotes

#1. As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Bobby Wallace

#2. Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Kristin Hannah

#3. I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. You bastard!' he shouted. He was quick. No warrior stays alive by being slow.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

Linda Blair

#6. Cnut Longsword had near killed me with his blade Ice-Spite and it was small consolation that Serpent-Breath had sliced his throat in the same heartbeat that his sword had broken a rib and pierced my lung.

Bernard Cornwell

#7. People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase

Sunday Adelaja

#8. There weren't any moderates left in the government of Iran.

Tim Weiner

#9. Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same.

Bernard Cornwell

#10. The spelling of place names in Anglo Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. The crews of the Viking ships are Danish, Norse, Frisian, and Saxon.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen.

Nayyirah Waheed

#13. I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.

Bernard Cornwell

#14. Choose your battles,' I snarled at Aethelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg

Bernard Cornwell

#15. He was a hard man, but what else would he be? He had stood in the shield wall, he had watched the Danes come to the attack, and he had lived. He was no youngster.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. One lesson I've learned
worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley

Irene Hannon

#17. There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!

Bernard Cornwell

#18. I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?

Bernard Cornwell

#19. When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

David Tang