Top 13 Quotes About Crimean War
#1. Every atom in your body spins and dances
like a bee around the queen,
like a whirling dervish,
like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.
Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#3. A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.
Andrew Solomon
#5. Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.
Jill Shalvis
#6. I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.
John Christopher
#7. Get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael ... get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael.
Stephen Fry
#8. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
Jenn Granneman
#9. There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#10. Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours
Steven Brust
#11. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
Alfred Nobel
#12. He stared at Esmelda with a face like glass, nothing hidden. What I saw there wasn't steel or fire or stone. Feelings stirred in me and I had to look away. I knew what I saw because I'd felt them, too - understanding, sadness, compassion ... forgiveness.
Deborah Wheeler
#13. Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men.
Doris Kearns Goodwin