Battle of Mount Longdon/battle

Famous quotes containing the words battle of, battle and/or mount:

    “Athelstan King,
    Lord among Earls,
    Bracelet-bestower and
    Baron of Barons,”
    —Unknown. Battle of Brunanburh (l. 1–4)

    “No slogan of democracy; no battle cry of freedom is more striving then the American parent’s simple statement which all of you have heard many times: ‘I want my child to go to college.’”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
    Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
    If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
    And I say, “Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)