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“The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.”

Given Air Battle Singing Manners Customs Procession

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”

War Form Song Prayer Battle Six Singing Ministers Yankees Baptists Shooter

Author:John S. Mosby

“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.”

Knows Body Able Actors Know How Battle Comfortable Singing Sitting Mark Down And Tables Dancing Screens Block Sitting Down Swagger

Author:Columbus Short

“Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.”

People Knows Heart I Can Important Reason Eye Lasts Song Lord Forever Heard My Heart Battle Singing Glory Seasons Raised Republic Jane Hymns

Author:Baron Vaughn

“Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.”

Half Battle Singing Sight Selling

Author:Rod Stewart

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.”

Source: Night Watch

“And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.”

Joy Song Sound Cities Terrible Battle Singing Fairs Host Rohan

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.”

World Children Existence Silence Laughing Battle Singing Bird Noise Lions Monkeys Tigers Jungle Obscurity Maniacs Hyenas Ambient

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.”

Men Song Boys Heard Battle Singing Stones

Book:The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'