#ada

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues. ↗

— Roy Clark

#believe #better #big #big leagues #drafted

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#business #credit #lend #lending #money

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#canada #maple #two

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#canada #first #fly #france #geese

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league. ↗

— Robbie Keane

#different #i #know #league #little

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#films #make #plan #stay

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#country #how #identity #knows #live

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#queen #spain #spanish-armada #leadership