1796 Treaty Quotes & Sayings

He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father's old globe. But now he saw that it was anything but featureless; distant blue swells rising and falling, like great lungs tasked to power the surging and receding of the foamy waves washing across the shoreline beyond them. — Jack Croxall

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — George Washington

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out. — Alan Kay

A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood. — William Shakespeare

It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say. — Bellamy Young

He asked me why I had put Maman in the home. I answered that it was because I didn't have the money to have her looked after and cared for. He asked me if it had been hard on me, and I answered that Maman and I didn't expect anything from each other anymore, or from anyone else either, and that we had both gotten used to our new lives. — Albert Camus

Be prepared for a bit of a stinker! My little lambs always start bleating when told they're not going to Heaven. — E.A.A. Wilson

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. — Drew Houston

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey. — Gordie Howe