Cannon Ball Quotes

#1. When we hold hands, it seems as if our blood flows together. We could kiss forever if we didn't have to go to school or work.

Gary Chapman

#2. God, Bones, fuck me. I love you, I love you." The words hit like a cannon-ball on a flimsy chessboard, obliterating the entire battlefield in one blow.

Lucian Bane

#3. Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Josh Billings

#5. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

Princess Diana

#7. Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. The only person who can fix education is the student.

Oliver DeMille

#9. You may be practical, but I am not foolish. Only a woman testing a man tells him not to bother." His eyes glinted. "It's a trap - to see if I'm stupid enough to believe your shameless lies.

Emma Alisyn

#10. Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Queen Victoria

#11. Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Honore De Balzac

#12. Author's Warning
If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you.

Christopher Moore

#13. It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

Dalai Lama

#14. I am conscious of eternal life.

Theodore Parker

#15. [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

Jimmy Cannon

#16. Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Thomas Hood

#17. When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Prayerfulness gives us the ability to stay focused and faithful to our Lord.

Euginia Herlihy