Civil War Era Sayings

#1. It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

Lauren Ambrose

#2. Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Will Ferrell

#3. I don't care what your daddy told you. I don't care what your grandaddy told you. The South lost. Get over it man! -January, 2003; Opening lecture to Intro to Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College

Mark A. Weitz

#4. I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

John Brandon

#5. God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

Tony Robbins

#6. The period that I would anoint as the golden era in American journalism was from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. It had three separate major strands: the Civil Rights struggle over integration of schools and public facilities in the South; the Vietnam War; and Watergate.

Anonymous

#7. Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.

Richard Norton Smith

#8. The goal in Pietism was the service of God in ministry to the world

Donald G. Bloesch

#9. What if I hit the man?" Newt said. "That's his worry," Call said. "Not letting him ride away is your worry." They

Larry McMurtry

#10. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye, and what then? - S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae

Clive Barker

#11. Nobody drowns by falling in the water ... but by staying there.

Shiv Khera

#12. When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine

#13. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Flip Wilson

#14. The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rand Paul