Famous quotes containing the words fort, plain and/or village:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)