Southern Drill Grounds

Famous quotes containing the words southern, drill and/or grounds:

    “It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
    Eagle with crest of red and gold,
    These men were born to drill and die.
    Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
    Make plain to them the excellence of killing
    And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”
    —Stephen Crane (1871–1900)

    “The principle of the brotherhood of man is ... narcissistic ... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)