Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child.
George Grainger: Dances like who?
Annie: Pavaliverthe Russian dancer. Dont be so ignorant.”
—Reginald Berkeley (18901935)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garages earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)