Top 18 Continental Army Quotes
#1. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
Joseph J. Ellis
#4. It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Louis Gates
#5. So, the moral of that story, other than never underestimate an independent bookseller, was that the Continental Army and its commander in chief had a soft spot for Chief Artillery Officer Henry Knox.
Sarah Vowell
#6. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.
Rebecca Skloot
#7. As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#8. If you are not doing what you love , then what are you here for
Dipayan Pal
#9. Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.
Anthony Powell
#10. When you're on the road, there is always the promise of the next stop being better than last
Gayle Forman
#11. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Mitch Albom
#12. I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
Denise Mina
#13. Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
Reid Hoffman
#14. Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Hugh Prather
#15. Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
Thomas Hoving
#16. The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.
John Mearsheimer
#17. If I had known you would show up at my door one day, I'd have done everything differently. Everything.
Colleen Hoover
#18. Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
George Washington
