Catherine The Great/reign of Peter III and The Coup D%C3%A9tat of July 1762

Famous quotes containing the words catherine the, catherine, reign, peter, iii and/or july:

    Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
    Clement Attlee (1883–1967)

    Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
    Clement Attlee (1883–1967)

    We may be witnesses to a Biblical prophecy come true. “And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation, and the beasts shall reign over the earth.”
    —Ted Sherdeman. Gordon Douglas. Dr. Medford (Edmund Gwenn)

    That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    The army is the true nobility of our country.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)

    Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and protect. But thinking independently comes of acting independently. It begins with a two-year-old doggedly pulling on flannel pajamas during a July heat wave and with parents accepting that the impulse is a good one. When we let go of these small tasks without anger or sorrow but with pleasure and pride we give each act of independence our blessing.
    Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)