Quotes About Yankee

In Upper Canada, during an emergency, individual civil liberties are not a matter of pressing concern. Individualism, after all, is an American concept, "liberty" a Yankee word.

the tart values of New England were the essence of his character. He was full of Yankee quirks and biases. He could be crotchety in his behavior and literary taste, obtuse and old-fashioned. And yet, Brooks believed, Windsor and all it stood for had kept him at heart "so direct, so uninfluenced by prejudice, so unclouded by secondary feelings, so immediate, so fresh." Max's was a New England mind, filled with dichotomies.

Yankee Lady, sent by Emerson, who has discovered that the 'Man Shakespear' is a Myth, and did not write those plays that bear his name, which were on the contrary written by a 'Secret Associate' (names unknown): she has actually come to England for the purposes of examining that, and if possible, proving it … Ach Gott!

The books still weren't real, but maybe they were written about city women, television women, Yankee women—just about as strange as Zeus had always been and Jesus was getting to be.

[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.

A doorman opened the door for me and I went in. The lobby was not quite as big as the Yankee Stadium. It was floored with a pale blue carpet with sponge rubber underneath. It was so soft it made me want to lie down and roll.

Bonilla and Christmas, working with Zemurray, were able to frame the war as an insurgency, the people rising up against a government selling the nation to gringos and Yankee bankers, whereas what you really had was more sinister and interesting—a battle waged by a private American citizen, a corporate chief, against a debt-ridden but sovereign nation.

Southern Cheap is, I'm gonna eat stale cookies while I serve you these fresh, warm buttered biscuits. Yankee Cheap is, I've got ten million dollars in the bank but I'm gonna cut off the thermostat during a blizzard and here's my great-great-grandpa's mothballed coat from the War of 1812 if you don't have the character and fortitude to generate your own body heat.

And what with the mystery of death and bereavement and the mysticism of the Bible, with all the beauty of the mountains and their ever-changing moods, naturally this New England child became set in his ways, a Yankee mystic to the end.

Fans will also notice another link to the Bronx - the field's dimensions are an exact replica of Yankee Stadium, measuring 318 feet down the left-field line, 408 feet to center field, and 314 feet down the right field line.

If you were from a state that didn't fight for the Confederacy, you were a Yankee.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of the Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing."--Dr. Clyde Wilson

He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

He laid her hands, palms upward, against his face, and she sat looking down at his bent head, a little disturbed in her soul that he should fling away his principles and his convictions quite so heedlessly for her sake. Mr. Murray, for instance, seemed not to have altered his chosen course a single degree because of Eden. Of course Mr. Murray was a Yankee. Virginia men, she had heard, were more considerate.

Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.

Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.

And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an! and then somebody jumps up and down in the upstairs hall. In another second the house would of fallen down.

The continuation of the Yankee blockade threatens more danger to our cause, by the consequent scarcity & high prices of necessaries of life, than do the Yankee arms & armies & fleets.

which leads to the Bronx. You can get to Yankee Stadium that way, although other routes are better.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.