290 Quotes About Civil-war

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit.

Civil wars, just like the reign of terror, are but the accelerated domestication of a people by the covert powers. - On Domestication

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these things.

Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than had occurred earlier. The war was not over for Hood's army as it came through the gates of Camp Douglas. Another struggle for survival was beginning, and the odds of success were no better in Chicago than at Franklin or Nashville.

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?

You foreigners, you're all the same! You come here to find out about Fredrico's death, yet you don't know a damn thing about what really happened in Granada in 1936." - Gerardo Ros