Acres Quotes - Page 2
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
'God's-Acre' (1841)
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.202, Random House
"My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel". Book by Ari Shavit, November 19, 2013.
For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”
Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins
Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.80, Counterpoint Press
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
'Essays Contributed to the 'Edinburgh Review" (1843) vol. 2 'Lord Bacon'
Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
"Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.
"The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.