George Washington Valley Forge Quotes

#1. His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause.
-General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal.

Rob Thomas

#3. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so

John Grisham

#4. There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Arthur Erickson

#5. Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.

Warren Ellis

#6. With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100 Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.

Alexander Pope

#7. Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.

Kenneth O. Gangel

#8. We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).

Henry Blackaby

#9. Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#10. You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

Jeremy Brett

#11. In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.

Gerald Stern

#12. The den of the Devil is no place for the innocent.

Darby Briar

#13. If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#14. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Roger Von Oech

#15. If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Ed Koch