Top 41 Quotes About Joshua Chamberlain
#1. There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#2. You go to him for advice? He's only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.
Joshua Chamberlain
#5. The mind is tested with equations;
the heart is tested with pain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. -
Alexander McCall Smith
#7. The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.
Joshua Chamberlain
#8. Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.
George Mikes
#9. You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
Gustave Flaubert
#10. Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Joshua Chamberlain
#11. The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain
#12. I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest - so sweetly and so surely.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#13. Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.
Joshua Chamberlain
#14. I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#15. Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
Joshua Chamberlain
#16. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
Joshua Chamberlain
#17. I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.
Joshua Chamberlain
#18. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#21. They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
Joshua Chamberlain
#23. My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain
#24. This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
Joshua Chamberlain
#25. We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
Joshua Chamberlain
#27. But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider ... That thought was our power.
Joshua Chamberlain
#28. For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#29. I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"
Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.
Rick Riordan
#31. We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.
Joshua Chamberlain
#32. Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
Joshua Chamberlain
#34. I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
Jodi Picoult
#35. We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
Joshua Chamberlain
#37. He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
Eugene Field
#38. I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.
Martin O'Malley
#39. The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before
Joshua Chamberlain
#40. Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.
Joshua Chamberlain
#41. Every happy memory created for a child is another treasure of a lifetime.
Donna Marie
