Quotes About Little Bighorn

#1. Unknown Assassin, says the headline. Blanche skips over the details she already knows. How bizarre to see what she lived through last night turned into an item tucked between stock prices and Crazy Horse whupping the army at Little Bighorn.

Emma Donoghue

#2. Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

John Trudell

#3. Oh, look. The idiot of the jungle awakens.

Shelly Laurenston

#4. The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

#5. There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Charles A. Coulombe

#6. It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

Jimmy Carter

#7. The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.

Chelsea Cain

#9. I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

Ted Turner

#10. The Creator does not care what happens in this world, nobody has heard from Him since he marked Cain. We are alone. Orphaned children, cursed, to struggle by the sweat of our brow to survive !!

Darren Aronofsky

#11. The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

Lesley Pearse

#12. Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

Zen Cho

#13. Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#14. Jagged Peak was buried alive.

Erin Hunter

#15. No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.

Michael Connelly

#16. I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

Judy Woodruff