Best Paul Revere Quotes

#1. One if by land, two if by sea.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#2. You come back to us or I swear, I'll find you, dig up your stinky corpse, and kick its ass until it freaking disintegrates.

Rachel Caine

#3. There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

Paul Revere

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

Paul Revere

#5. Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Alec Ross

#7. The macarons are coming!" Souse shouted, like an epicurean Paul Revere.

Stephanie Clifford

#8. Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#9. To arms, to arms! The British are coming, the British are coming!

Paul Revere

#10. The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Paul Revere

#11. The great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use" ('God in Search of Man' p34)

Paul F Herring

#12. Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Harvey MacKay

#13. A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

Jesse Schell

#14. To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.

Mae West

#15. Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

Yo-Yo Ma

#17. The British are coming.

Paul Revere

#18. I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

Lionel Richie

#19. You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Sarah Palin

#20. No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

Paul Revere

#21. In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Paul Revere

#22. We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.

Billy Graham

#23. 1 if by land, 2 if by sea.

Paul Revere

#24. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.

John M. Murrin

#25. Does anyone remember the name of Paul Revere's horse?

Joe Jackson

#26. Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

Bill Maher