March Quotes - Page 32

• The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Grief, Joy, Cabins

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• Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Training, Humans

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Battle, Hardship

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• Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?

  Ariel Dorfman

  Sleep, Night, Darkness

  "Are We Really So Fearful?". www.washingtonpost.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

  Thomas Campbell

  Home, Mountain, Towers

  Thomas Campbell (1839). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric, and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition”, p.104

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• I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

  Anthony Wayne

  Morning, Moving, Fog

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• If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

  John Howard

  Running, Circles, Iraq

  Nine Network TV interview, February 11, 2007.

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• I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

  Arthur H. Vandenberg

  War, America, Cold

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• Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

  James Montgomery

  Death, Moving, Home

  James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.260

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• I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

  Oleta Adams

  Voice, Never Forget, Introducing

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• The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Commitment, Sunday, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Wall, Powerful

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

  Avi Lewis

  Thinking, Doors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Sea, Lemmings, Proud

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• We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.

  Winston Churchill

  Spring, War, Men

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wings, Bucks, Folly

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threat to world peace, a whopping 86.9% answered the United States.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Korea, Europe, Iraq

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

  Ted Nugent

  Skulls, Enemy, Democracy

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• There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.

  Alice Nutter

  Fighting, Circles, Squares

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• Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.

  Julien Gracq

  Distance, Sleep, Journey

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• Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.

  Wendell Berry

  Flower, Men, Funeral

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.19, Counterpoint

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• I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

  LeVar Burton

  Growth, Band, Patterns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Musical, Training, Identity

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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