Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
Ulysses S. Grant
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
Abraham Lincoln
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor Swift
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
Jacki Weaver
I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
Adam Ferrara
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
Hal Roach
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
Alice Oswald
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
Ulysses S. Grant
