Seceded Quotes

#1. Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Winfield Scott

#2. The American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

Lewis Goldberg

#3. [Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato ... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

Plato

#4. When Texas seceded from the Union, the German preacher, Peter Moeling, wrote from Galveston: "I shall die a true patriot and a soldier of the Cross, the gun in hand and Christ within my heart.

Ross Phares

#5. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Harper Lee

#6. Day hissed and it made God latch his mouth onto the tender spot on Day's neck and suck as hard as he could. He was still satisfying his craving to mark Day as his own. If he could have he'd probably have branded him with his name too. Somewhere very visible - maybe his forehead - God's Property.

A.E. Via

#7. That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Jackson Browne

#8. She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

Sonya Hartnett

#9. You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.

Christopher McDougall

#10. Once, he'd dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. Dance after dance after dance, until sweat was running down my back as I worked to keep up, keep that smile on my face, to remember to laugh when my hands were within strangling distance from his throat.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Peter S. Beagle

#13. We live in the world we are thinking of.

Ralph Smart

#14. Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?

H.G.Wells

#15. Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could.

Holly Black

#16. In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.

William Slim

#17. All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

J. Edgar Hoover