Famous quotes containing the words june, march and/or battle:
“In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didnt
want it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and femaleone hundred to two hundredtoiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isnt going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)