Leavenworth Quotes

#1. I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Chief Joseph

#2. 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

#3. The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. (Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp.

Murray N. Rothbard

#4. Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Parkman

#5. After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.

John D. MacDonald

#6. Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.

Seanan McGuire

#7. My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Eric Stonestreet

#8. A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Francis Parkman

#9. Tooter had gone back to court to testify in Billy's murder trial. The Leavenworth justice system had been a travesty for as long as I could remember, and the term "old boy network" was alive and well there.

Thomas M. Sartain

#10. I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

Adam Beach

#11. Fitz's door was closed, so she knocked before going in.
"I told you, Mr. Snuggles's visiting hours are over," he called through the door.
"What about your visiting hours?" she asked.
"Oh! I thought you were Keefe."
Sophie opened the door. "I get that a lot.

Shannon Messenger

#12. A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."

Jon Stewart

#13. But what Chanel failed to realize is that Q didn't want what was best of her, he didn't care about her well-being. If it was up to him, Chanel wouldn't have any of the shit she had now.

Nako

#14. Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

John Grisham

#15. Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Vince Lombardi

#16. Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them.

Harriet Jacobs

#18. All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

Rajneesh

#19. We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Marilyn Johnson

#20. PS: Allston rules!

David Foster Wallace

#21. Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

Anita Elberse