Bull Run Campaign

Famous quotes containing the words bull, run and/or campaign:

    “I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O.,
    and made my manic statement,
    telling off the state and president, and then
    sat waiting sentence in the bull pen
    beside a Negro boy with curlicues
    of marijuana in his hair.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.”
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)