#cannon

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. ↗

— Charles V

#emperor #ever #me #name #struck

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#kings #last #paving #people #resort

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#cannot #compromised #east #further #iranian

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#because #cannon #early #early age #feel

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#bites #cannon #carpet #courtney #courtney love

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. ↗

— Kenny G

#college #coltrane #i #influence #jazz

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#attention #call #cannons #does #fire

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#become #cannon #care #children #fodder

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest