John Gibbon Quotes

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.

John Gibbon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 20, 1827 - February 6, 1896

Topics

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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

Andrea Barrett

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Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.

Meghan Daum

MomentYouCrimeDesperationPriest

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

Jeff Van Gundy

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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

John Singleton

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The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Amanda Foreman

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In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones

HistoryGreatPeopleNot Perfect

I used to have this superstition where I had to eat steak every night before I played, and my nutritionist told me don't do that. So after I lost that one, the other ones fell off pretty quickly.

Milos Raonic

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I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Judi Dench

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We could have done things in a more transparent manner and explained better.

Jay Y. Lee

BetterDoneMoreThingsTransparent

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

Joseph Morgan

CameraAlwaysEverythingBehindBeen

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Corazon Aquino

JourneyFreedomPeopleMediaYou

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

Clint Eastwood

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