KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Confederate


Share this page on

Showing 11-20 of 21 quotes in the topic Confederate

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

~Chesty Puller

Topics: Alone Army Confederacy Confederate Courage Four Judged Live Made Officer Possible Stark Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who's been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.

~Chris Wood

Topics: Army Been Captain Causes City Come Confederate Daughter Ends Family He House Issues Obviously Over Play Romance Some Staying Strikes Taken Union Up Van Virginia Which Who Youngest

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: About Before Books Come Confederate Elements Ever Had Heard Invested Know Like More Much None People Place Play Raw Read Real Sensitive Show Story Than Them Watched Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.

~D. B. Weiss

Topics: Confederate Contemporary Could Drama Ever Fiction Historical History How Minds Our Realistic Science Science Fiction Science-Fiction Show Still Strengths Strictly Us Way Were Whether Will

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Confederate Cop Curtains Dad Down Flags Grew Houses Know People Three Up Used Who You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The Confederate flag is a divisive presence - it's the opposite of everything my artistry means and represents.

~Dianne Reeves

Topics: Artistry Confederate Divisive Everything Flag Means Opposite Presence Represents

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

~Donald Mccaig

Topics: Confederate Had Novel Pennsylvania Settled Way Would Written

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: America Been Civil Civil War Confederate Countries End Free Free World Had History Imagine Only States The History Of Today Two United United States War World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Confederate Historian Should Thinks Up Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Arthur Avenue Company Confederate Five Monument Statues Then Va

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Dave Barry Jesus Christ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ulysses S. Grant Eartha Kitt Nelson Mandela John D. Rockefeller Jack Welch

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1810 - P. T. Barnum

1586 - Thomas Hooker

1849 - William Thomas Stead

1853 - Cecil Rhodes

1857 - Clara Zetkin

1882 - Hazrat Inayat Khan

1889 - Jean Cocteau

1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen

1899 - Marcel Achard

1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Birthdays on July 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Chance Dad Famous Graduation Home Money Nature Politics