Quotes of: Cannon Keyword

Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.

French

[repeated line] Dumbledore: At the sound of the cannon... [cannon fires]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.

Candide

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

Dwight L. Moody

Fenella Doorn watched the unfamiliar wreck of a ship ghosting into her bay. Crippled by cannon fire, she thought. What else could do such damage? The foremast was blown away, as well as half the mainmast where a jury rig clung to the jagged stump, an...

The Queen's Exiles

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

Lee Tergesen

Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

Dwight L. Moody

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

J. M. Roberts

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

Mao Zedong

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Liberalism

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

This constant basso on the horizon is it the waterfall or the cannon ("Poem")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Madonna Ciccone

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Russ Carnahan

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Mario Van Peebles

Union Soldier: For God's sake, come on! [Head is blown off by cannon]

Glory

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

David Lloyd

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

Sally Rand

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

Helen Thomas

Mrs. Banks: [sees the time] Excuse me, POSTS, EVERYONE, PLEASE! [cannon fires]

Mary Poppins