Civil War Fiction Quotes

#1. There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu

Frank Sinatra

#2. I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Sam Childers

#3. I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Julia Lee Dean

#4. -The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Nora Roberts

#5. It would be altogether simpler if the rugged man before her wore gray, but instead he would be handsomely attired in Union blue.

A.M. Heath

#6. Directly in front of me, crossing the street, I saw a woman laughing and walking arm in arm with two men. When she came to the curb, she lifted her skirt with both hands and vulgarly displayed a pair of indigo stockings.

Nancy B. Brewer

#7. Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

Roy Baumeister

#8. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Nancy B. Brewer

#9. Media was a battle ground. So was the internet. People began walking openly with their weapons, whether it was a gun or a camera. Drones were always skimming overhead, filming the violence of the second civil war of the United States.

Lindsay Anderson

#10. It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

Al Pacino

#11. There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing.

Christie Golden

#12. War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

Bobbye L. Hudspeth

#13. I will protect your sister and your vicious Grandmother with my life," Viper promised stiffly.

Anonymous

#14. You're like an idiot...trapped in an idiot's body!"

Hey it was funny at the time and level of intoxication.

Jedidiah Behe

#15. Please, dear brother, do much more with that Bible of yours besides carry it for luck. It will bring you no such luck. But if opened, it will bring you life.

A.M. Heath

#16. Hell is full of polite men with bone saws.

Miles Watson

#17. THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG
PROLOGUE
The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.

Charles Phillips

#18. I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

Nancy B. Brewer

#19. The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

Jamie Goode

#20. The Captain, so close as he was, didn't warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse's hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

Greever Williams

#21. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.

Nancy B. Brewer

#22. European and American banks are conservative in the sense that they don't come at their full strength to markets where we are; that leaves us an opportunity to be successful.

Husnu Ozyegin

#23. It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse

Nancy B. Brewer

#24. Don't know when my life came to visualising intense pain and tragedy to putting it down on paper, to putting across a message of love in times of abject hate. Thank you everybody and the conspiracy of the stars for showing me this day. To many, many more books, inshallah, and to many more launches.

Simran Keshwani

#25. On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire")

Nancy B. Brewer

#26. No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Aaron A.A. Smith

#27. Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.

Nancy B. Brewer

#28. Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

Nancy B. Brewer

#29. Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.

Nancy B. Brewer

#30. She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Nancy B. Brewer

#31. You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life.

Henry V. O'Neil

#32. It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Hello fake Everett children.

Monet Polny

#34. Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

Gudrun Ensslin

#35. Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Leonard Leventon

#36. It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

Jerry Uelsmann

#37. (The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Nancy B. Brewer