Rochambeau Quotes & Sayings

I hate idiots. There's a difference. It's not my fault a great majority of them in this world happen to be male. — Sara Wolf

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. — Priscilla Presley

Of course Americans celebrate Independence Day as opposed to Yorktown Day. Who wants to barbecue a hot dog and ponder how we owe our independence to the French navy? Who wants to twirl sparklers and dwell on how the French government's expenditures in America contributed to the bankruptcy that sparked the French Revolution that would send Rochambeau to prison, Lafayette into exile (then prison), and our benefactor His Most Christian Majesty Louis XVI to the guillotine. — Sarah Vowell

The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

This world by itself is a wonder. — Richard J. Borden

The most meaningful namesake by far is Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Also known as Lafayette Park, this is the nation's capital of protest, the place where we the people gather together to yell at our presidents. In each corner of this seven-acre park stands a statue of four of the most revered European officers who served in the Revolutionary War: Lafayette, Rochambeau, Steuben, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the Polish engineer whose defensive works contributed to the Continental Army's victory at Saratoga. — Sarah Vowell

This is us. Our pose. The smush. It's even how we are in the ultrasound photo they took of us inside Mom and how I had us in the picture Fry ripped up yesterday. Unlike most everyone else on earth, from the very first cells of us, we were together, we came here together. This is why no one hardly notices that Jude does most of the talking for both of us, why we can only play piano with all four of our hands on the keyboard and not at all alone, why we can never do Rochambeau because not once in thirteen years have we chosen differently. It's always: two rocks, two papers, two scissors. When I don't draw us like this, I draw us as half-people. — Jandy Nelson

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more. — Mike Weir

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it. — Joyce Rachelle