John Brown Gordon Quotes

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

John Brown Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1832 - January 9, 1904

Topics

MeFaceDownBallOutShot

I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about, and if other people are writing about it, that doesn't really come to bear on what you want to do.

Jesse Andrews

PeopleWritingThinkYouPlaceWant

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

Rodney Atkins

LifeLoveGirlDecisionGrateful

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.

Rose Leslie

LifeFriendTimeLovedMy LifeKind

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

Jazz Jennings

FamilyLoveMyselfI AmSupportMe

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Douglas Southall Freeman

CharacterQualityManPossibleGoing

When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.

Drew Busby

RoadGameYouBackPlaceRight

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

Clifford D. Simak

BackFirstPlanetAvailableMine

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Phil Spector

SoundHearStudioWantedCreated

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

EducationHomeWomanManWorldAim

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

Mark Haddon

LifeMeRestYouArtistHot

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

Montesquieu

WorldBlindIntelligentTalkMore

As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.

Mark Takano

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