Quotes for All
And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we … Read more
It’s just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don’t even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down. Erykah Badu
I did a film called ‘Fort McCoy,’ based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. Eric Stoltz
My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree That’s where we would conduct our very important business, I’m sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle … Read more
The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance – the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, \”To think these niggers speak French!\” Later, … Read more
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. Edmund Barton
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all. Frank Moore Colby
So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and … Read more
Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with … Read more
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. Francis Parkman