There is so much apathy... that I wish to be relieved from the Army of the Potomac.
Quotes about potomac (16 Quotes)
He couldn't really go to his superior, who was L. Patrick Gray, who was busy throwing documents into the Potomac River from the bridge. He couldn't go to the attorney general, who was on his way to jail himself.
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
All quiet along the Potomac.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
The kids played pretty good defense until the end of the game. We let them back in it. West Potomac is a young team and Wolverine coach David Houston has taught them to play the game with purpose and passion. They have the tools. Overall, we had an excellent defensive and offensive night on Friday.
But it is the unexpected twists, golf aficionados say, that make golfing on the road so memorable. Not long ago, Scott Foster, a lawyer who works for FTI Consulting in Annapolis, Md., spotted a fox on the East Potomac Park Golf Course in Washington, withi
We really love the outpouring of support from the Potomac area. They're stepping up and helping us.
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell.
It may be encountered in Wall Street, Main Street or Tobacco Road. Some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the Potomac.
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry. Allen Thorndike Rice, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, chapter 22, p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part of Lincoln's response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to Lincoln's office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been repeated in numerous books on Lincoln Alexander K. McClure, 'Abe' Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, p. 162 (1904) Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 153 (1917) and Caroline T. Harnsberger, The Lincoln Treasury, p. 14 (1950).