Francis Parkman Quotes

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Francis Parkman

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• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Mission

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Strong
  • Food
  • Health

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Control
  • Single

• For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

  

  Yuna
  • Myself
  • Let Go
  • Insecurities

• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • World
  • Great
  • Ocean

• George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Great
  • President
  • Candidate

• Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

  

  O. Henry
  • Sunrise

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Ignorance

• When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Years
  • Old
  • Pounds

• Tabletalk Magazine exists to help establish us in the Word to deepen our understanding of God and apply this knowledge to our daily living.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

  

  Mike Lowry
  • People
  • Feels
  • Limits

• In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Live
  • Reality

• I hit an exercise - arms and legs, a set of curls, a set of tricep pushdowns, and then grab the bar and squat 40-20-30 and do it over again. I hit that a couple times through, then go in the sauna. I'll do a couple calf raises, then hop on a treadmill at 15 - the highest incline it can have while maintaining a fast-paced walk.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Couple
  • Exercise

• Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

  

  Francis Parkman