#amp

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#blister #brow #confound #cramp #galling

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#cheering #lad #playboy #western #western world

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #behind #boyhood #camps

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories. ↗

— George Takei

#eight #fond #fond memories #four #i

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

#anti-war #bobby #california #came #campaign

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. ↗

— Edward Grey

#europe #going #lamps #lifetime #lit

It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself. ↗

— Seth Graham-Smith

#confrontation #consciously #delicious #flavors #got

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#connected #example #for example #language #liberate

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#campuses #centers #college #college campuses #crisis