Siege of Petersburg/second Deep Bottom August 14-20

Famous quotes containing the words siege of, siege, deep, bottom and/or august:

    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
    We shall overcome some day.
    Oh, deep in my heart I do believe
    We shall overcome some day.
    —Anonymous.

    According to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)

    Women are supposed to be deep—why? Because one can never get to the bottom with them. Women are not even shallow.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    If August passes
    flowerless,
    and the frosts come,
    will I have learned to rejoice enough
    in the sober wonder of
    green healthy leaves?
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)