Famous quotes containing the words indian, army, world and/or war:
“Sabra Cravat: I should think youd be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
Cim Cravat: Ruby isnt an Indian hired girl. Shes the daughter of an Osage chief.
Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
Cim Cravat: Shes just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
—Howard Estabrook (18841978)
“Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they are known. It would be necessary only to know the genus and perhaps the race or variety, to know the individual. We are not prepared to believe that every private soldier in a Roman army had a name of his own,because we have not supposed that he had a character of his own.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Delusions that shrink to the size of a womans glove,
Then sicken inclusively outwards:
. . . the incessant recital
Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms,
Each one double-yolked with meaning and meanings rebuttal:
For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“This is not Johnsons war. This is Americas war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)