Fort Quotes

#1. Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

Caprice Bourret

#2. See you in a few. Hold down the fort, Mr. Wong!

Darynda Jones

#3. What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.

Kate Chopin

#4. Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania - then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

Charles Fort

#5. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.

Mark R. Jones

#6. Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

Jean Racine

#7. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Charles Fort

#8. Mom and Dad chatting around mouthfuls of steak while Junior used the scraps of his hamburger to buttress the walls of Fort French Fry.

Marcus Sakey

#9. San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Steve Earle

#10. He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!

Herman Melville

#11. It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

Charles Fort

#12. I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

Victoria Beckham

#13. My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.

Rick Astley

#14. But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of ...

Charles Fort

#15. The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.

Pat Frank

#16. Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#17. Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

Charles Fort

#18. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

#19. I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.

Leon Bridges

#20. Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

Mark Batterson

#21. Mom let go of us and leaned back so she could look us both in the eye. "No more spending the night in the tree fort, you two.

Danielle Lee Zwissler

#22. London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

Joseph Fort Newton

#23. A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

Horatio Nelson

#24. People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Peter Fonda

#25. Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?"
My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

David Klass

#26. All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Charles Fort

#27. If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

Charles Fort

#28. When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

Mary Pope Osborne

#29. The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

Joseph Fort Newton

#30. Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.

Azita Ghanizada

#31. I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

Cornelia Fort

#32. I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

Bill Paxton

#33. Happiness depends on sound sleep, orderly bowels and regular meals.

Matthew Fort

#34. Fighting a fully armed trained killer while naked always tipped the favor towards the guy with more than his underwear on.

Jason E. Fort

#35. All would be well. All would be heavenly
If the damned would only stay damned.

Charles Fort

#36. I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Sargent Shriver

#37. Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots ... The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

Cornelia Fort

#38. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton

#39. ... not a fort at all, but a giant amulet, a city made from the magic in our hearts and the land itself.

A.A. Attanasio

#40. We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.

Charles Fort

#41. The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

Charles Fort

#42. London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.

Joseph Fort Newton

#43. Imagine the day after the Berlin Wall came down if everybody in East Germany was plump and comfortable-looking and dressed in Caribbean pastels, and you'll have a pretty good idea what the Fort Lauderdale Airport terminal looks like today.

David Foster Wallace

#44. In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Daniel Boone

#45. And I have the Internet. That sounds weird, but Twitter is a lot like having a large, invisible gang of equally messed-up people who will hide with you in bathrooms and make you laugh under the pillow fort you've built in a lonely hotel room.

Jenny Lawson

#46. Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Sophocles

#47. The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Garrett Fort

#48. Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox.

Edward Harris

#49. Grandpa Portman really knew how to keep a secret, didn't he?""Are you kidding? The man was an emotional Fort Knox.

Ransom Riggs

#50. 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

Curtis Jackson

#51. The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.

Martha Wells

#52. It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

Marquis De Lafayette

#53. My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

Garrett Fort

#54. Forte is French ... for blanket fort.

Buddy Wakefield

#55. If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

Maynard Owen Williams

#56. My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

Seamus Heaney

#57. Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

Ted Rall

#58. In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.

Patrick Rothfuss

#59. With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

Jim Ryun

#60. Hawk was like a man gone mad. He'd hardly slept all night for worrying about her, and here she was, calmly riding back to Fort Laramie and her lover. He longed, at that moment, to put his hands around her slender throat and choke some sense into her.

Kat Martin

#61. I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Zach Galifianakis

#62. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

Charles Fort

#63. The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

Madeleine Stowe

#64. I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

Chad Coleman

#65. A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Charles Fort

#66. A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Joseph Fort Newton

#67. The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.

Sinclair Lewis

#68. The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

Charles Fort

#69. I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

Bailee Madison

#70. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

Madeleine Stowe

#72. It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

Cynthia Lewis

#73. I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

Mike Shinoda

#74. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Hedda Hopper

#75. With his fort of books the hobgoblin had come to a smooching scene and shouted for them to pipe down.

Laini Taylor

#76. Animals lived out there, but fort surveyors declared that there were no predators. The shades had gotten those long ago, drawn by the shedding of blood.

Brandon Sanderson

#77. The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica. Wayfaring Stranger Pg. 415

James Lee Burke

#78. There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue,

Stephen King

#79. We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

John Wayne

#80. Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale.

Ted Bell

#81. The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Gertrud Von Le Fort

#82. So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.

Joseph Fort Newton

#83. Stephanie has walls around her that could rival Fort Knox. She's determined not to let me in, but I'm going to do my damnedest to get inside.

Nina D'Angelo

#84. The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Wayne Allard

#85. In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

Charles Fort

#86. I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

Charlie Worsham

#87. You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

Garrett Fort

#88. Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.

Joseph Fort Newton

#89. Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

Joseph Fort Newton

#90. You're like my blanket fort." "I've been called worse things," I tell her.

Christina Lauren

#91. Who are you, world, that you should frighten me?

Gertrud Von Le Fort

#92. Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#93. I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.

Charles Fort

#94. This was the beginning of Tampa," said Serge. "They built Fort Brooke here in 1823.

Tim Dorsey

#95. You came', said Laurent.
'You knew I would', said Damen.
'If you need an army to take your capital', said Laurent, 'I seem to have one'
Damen let out a strange breath. They were gazing at each other. Laurent said, 'after all, I owe you a fort

C.S. Pacat

#96. There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Charles Fort

#97. Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

Joseph Fort Newton

#98. 100% Reason to remember the name.

Fort Minor

#99. Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

Dan Jenkins

#100. Fire swept through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, some of the palisades and even Reverend Robert Hunt's books.

Charles E. Hatch