Quotes of: Legions Keyword

When in doubt, Gallop! (Proverb of the French Foreign Legion)

French

Governor Paetus...’ Lupus closed his eyes that we might not read the rage in them. ‘Governor Paetus has informed us that he will return to our camp at Rhandaea with the Fourth legion, there to build the palisades and set up defences sufficient to...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

We need the Fallen Legion,” I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her. “And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in,” Firen said dryly. “That’ll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand,” I g...

Fallen Legion

The camp offices stood in the centre, adjoining the shrine to Jupiter that held the legion’s Eagle. In the camps of the Vth Macedonica and the VIth Ferrata, these buildings were of grey stone, dressed by Gaulish masons to such smoothness that a man...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.

Archangel's Legion

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

The Stand

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Dave Winfield

Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Diane Ackerman

They knew of the Vth, my legion, of their skill in battle, of how they had won Antium for Octavian, and then fought against Parthia for Tiberius; they were glad the Vth was not yet on their borders, although concerned that it was camped so close in M...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

Fallen Legion

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Gil Kane

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Patrick Fugit

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

Dennis Quaid

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Gustave Flaubert

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

John Lennon

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Goldwin Smith

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Fallen Legion

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

That bar also delineated the realm of sweat and hourly wage, the working world that college was educating me to leave. Rewards in that realm were few. No one congratulated you for clocking out. Your salary was spare. The Legion served as recompense. ...

The Liars' Club

If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said, smirking.

Fallen Legion