Quotes About Yorktown

#1. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

Rachel Martin

#2. After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Ron Chernow

#3. The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Jack Adams

#4. Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Ronald Reagan

#5. I like the connection - me touching her. She's oil on my troubled, deep, dark waters.
Hmm ... flowery, Grey.

E.L. James

#6. I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Jessica Savitch

#8. I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

#9. She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Idries Shah

#11. Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

Ursula Goodenough

#12. If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me

Piper Laurie

#13. One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. The music of the future will not entertain
It's only meant to repress and neutralize your brain

Porcupine Tree

#15. An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.

John Galsworthy

#16. If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'

Vic Tayback

#17. I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
others the impression that they are.

Edith Head

#18. I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

Evangeline Lilly