Quotes About Gun Powder

#1. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. The Four Great Chinese Inventions - compass, gun-powder, paper, and print - are legendary. Less talked about are meritocracy and banknotes.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#3. The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

H. Rap Brown

#4. the stern of my ship." "Indeed." Marianne said with a slight smile. Noah methodically poured gun powder into the barrel, then rammed the bullet inside with a ramrod. "Mr. Drummond, surely you know that bringing him here endangers my entire family.

MaryLu Tyndall

#5. There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#6. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Alan Moore

#7. Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

#8. Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

Louis L'Amour

#9. For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

N. Scott Momaday

#10. Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

Selma Blair

#11. When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

Steve Sabol

#12. I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

Barney Ross

#13. If brains was black powder he couldn't blow his own nose. It's a pity the things you see when you ain't got a gun.

Stephen King

#14. If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

Martha Beck

#15. The thing is, when you're dependent on others, they hold a part of your happiness in their hands. They can nurture it or crush it at any moment. Your fate doesn't belong to you.

Emma Chase

#16. You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Julia Quinn

#17. There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

Susanna Clarke

#18. it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however

Timothy Ferriss

#19. It is not about how it ends; it is about the journey. The full story. You have to know the full story to care about or know the ending.

Patti Callahan Henry

#20. People would do better, if they knew better.

Jim Rohn

#21. All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

William Joyce

#22. Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm