For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust.
Quotes about kemper (4 Quotes)
The latest model based on the forecast track would have 60 mile-an-hour winds as far north as Lexington, across to Kemper County, and over into almost the Arkansas border.
If we hadn't shown horses, we wouldn't have been so close to Kemper. My dad loved him, but it wasn't a fatherson kind of love. It was just that if he Dunlap had a problem or a question about something, he had someone to ask.
A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.