Top 23 Quotes About Gettysburg War
#1. I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
Jerry Spinelli
#3. The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.
Danny Wallace
#4. That old man ... had my division massacred at Gettysburg!
George Pickett
#5. A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar Bush
#6. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.
Bruce Catton
#7. Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Epicurus
#8. I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein
#9. According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#10. I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.
Mark Neumann
#11. I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
Mort Sahl
#12. My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
Jimmy Carter
#13. Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#14. The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.
It was Matthew's voice that broke the silence, asking, "And what happened after that?"
"After that," said Paul, "came Gettysburg.
Elisabeth Grace Foley
#15. I don't care what your daddy told you. I don't care what your grandaddy told you. The South lost. Get over it man! -January, 2003; Opening lecture to Intro to Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College
Mark A. Weitz
#16. There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
Eleanor Mondale
#17. I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#18. If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
Peggy Lee
#19. You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
Agatha Christie
#20. She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.
Christina Dodd
#21. The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
Russell Baker
#22. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Abraham Lincoln
#23. THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG
PROLOGUE
The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.
Charles Phillips
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