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William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891

Topics

Today War Hell Looks Glory Boy

Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.

Day Broken Rest American America Go

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

Character Myself Think Like Some

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Good Art Seeing Bad Philadelphia

I was lucky to have parents and people who believed in me.

Parents People Me Lucky Who

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

Music Survive Career Never See

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Joy Me Impossible Alive Sorrow Dust

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Beauty Age Woman Win Feet Never

In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care.

Me Thought Care Know Why Out

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

Joseph David-Jones

Music Me Escape Kind Always Been

I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.

Dolores O'Riordan

People Appreciate Privacy Invading

My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.

Stars Wife Dinner Hollywood She

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

Silence Important Intellectual

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