Shelby Foote Quotes
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Shelby Foote Quotes & Sayings
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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
— Shelby Foote
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.
— Jazmine Sullivan
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
— Tony Horwitz
Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake
— Shelby Foote
I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
— Kodi Smit-McPhee
I never cared what kind of grade I got.
— Shelby Foote
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
— Josh Billings
Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.
— Shelby Foote
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
— Shelby Foote
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.
— Denis Diderot
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
— Shelby Foote
I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
— Shelby Foote
On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.
— Shelby Foote
You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot
— Shelby Foote
A fact is not a truth until you love it.
— Shelby Foote
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
— Shelby Foote