Famous quotes containing the words ten, year and/or war:
“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Listen, thats the one that done it. The dusters. They started it anyways. Blowin like this year after year. Blowin the land away. Blowin the crops away. Blowin us away now.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“The remnant of Indians thereaboutall but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by the Red Men for their native soil and natural rightshad been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)