General Longstreet Quotes

#1. General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.

James Longstreet

#2. General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

James Longstreet

#3. General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

James Longstreet

#4. Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.

Jill Santopolo

#5. General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

James Longstreet

#6. General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

Robert E.Lee

#7. It's easy to slip into darkness when light seems elusive..."
His Pleasures and Pain

Chevelle Allen

#8. I remember admiring my aunt's - my mom's sister's - fashion, which was very feminine and sexy, but always sophisticated.

Stephanie Sigman

#9. Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

Ilona Andrews

#10. I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

James Longstreet

#11. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

Meek Mill

#12. Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population).

Michael Pollan

#13. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Alexei Sayle

#15. I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

James Longstreet

#16. Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

Sophie Swetchine

#17. I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

Agyness Deyn

#18. Threat - your performance was an entirely different flavor of amazing.

Jerry Aubin

#19. If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.

Kellyn Roth