A Quote by Alan Seeger

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

Alan Seeger

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Alan Seeger
American - Poet
June 22, 1888 - July 4, 1916

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Alan Seeger

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Barbara W. Tuchman

There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

Patricia Schroeder

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

Wally Schirra

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Ronald Reagan

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

Ronald Reagan

I have a rendezvous with life.

Countee Cullen

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeanette Winterson

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

Aime Cesaire

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

Sam Kean

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

Robert Breault

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

George Henry Lewes

In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.