Quotes About Settlement

Cecil, who had always opposed a settlement with Mary

It won't take much of a city to be a city for me

Emigrant Gap. Califo

When Stone created an outfit called Citizens United Not Timid (CUNT) during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bossie's group sued him. Stone, maintaining it was a gag, settled the lawsuit.

the shires which Alfred not so long before had been obliged to surrender to the Vikings remained for the most part united till the twelfth century under the common designation of "Danelaw". But the region so named extended well beyond the limits within which the study of place-names reveals intensive Scandinavian settlement.

Britains [sic], up to now afflicted by various disasters and vicissitudes, were widely reduced to the rule of the Saxons.

before the earliest Saxon settlers had arrived.

Had humans never settled in Los Angeles, evolution, left to its own devices, might have created in a million more years the ideal creature for the habitat: a camel with gills.

The fundamental issues are treaties, power and capital. Are we able to be honest enough with ourselves to accept this? Do we want a settlement or not? The shape and direction of the country depends on how we act. This must become a political issue.

either lived in, or recently had lived

It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City.

They knew it would take a long time for the dust to settle out of the air.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.

But he was the one who'd called for compromise, and the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

What then?" But she put the thought from her mind. When the war was over, everything would be settled, somewhow. If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.

In the spring of 1854, he moved down to "the Monte" (later called El Monte), the first exclusively white settlement in Los Angeles County, located on the stage road between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Susan Thompson's family had opened a hotel there called the Willow Grove Inn, and the Richardsons, another Brewster party family who had made it to California in 1852, had settled just a few miles away.

No songs, no scops, no searing meat, no blazing fire. And Grendel, incomplete, raided relentlessly. Dude, this was what they call a blood feud, a war 150 that tore a hole through the hearts of the Danes. Grendel was broken, and would not brook peace, desist in dealing deaths, or die himself. He had no use for stealth—he came near-nightly, and never negotiated. The old counselors knew better than to expect a settlement in silver from him.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.