Besieged Quotes

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. - Lactantius

We've got two besieged leaders in their own way, and neither one is looking to be a problem to the other, nor does he want the other to become a problem. - David Lampton

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: / There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: / Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. - Bible

They're not interested in millions. We don't have prisoners. Simply, our athletes are besieged because people want to turn them into merchandise, but they want to play for their country. - Higinio Velez

They could not shake us when they besieged us in Beirut. Now we're in Palestine -- what hope has [Sharon] of shaking us? - Yasser Arafat

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. - Bible

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. - Bible

Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem. - Bible