Famous quotes containing the words ten, year and/or war:
“I married a miner myself. I had ten children. Ive got seven now; thirty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. And Im happy to say not a ones ever crossed a picket line.”
—Florence Reese (c. 1900?)
“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops wont be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it wont be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, well be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)