Mary Pope Osborne

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

American Writer

Amanda Gorman

What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.

American Poet

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Australian Actor

Madeleine Stowe

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

American Actress

Jim Peebles

As a kid I did enjoy building things; learned quickly how to make gun powder. I built sleighs, forts, houses in the back yards of houses.

Canadian Scientist

Tomi Lahren

Fort Hood, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino are not 'terrorist incidents.' They are attacks. Get that straight.

American Journalist

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

American Novelist

Landon Donovan

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

American Athlete

Dan Jenkins

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

American Author

Jimmy Butler

I built a fort when I was little, with pillows and blankets.

The term has a military origin, usually referring to a secure place for troops.

Historical Use

Sometimes used to imply that someone is defensive or hard to approach emotionally.

Figurative Sense

Forts can be historic landmarks and tourist attractions today.

Cultural Heritage

Used to express a feeling of safety in non-military contexts.

Metaphorical Security

Implies a deep sense of personal security and contentment.

Emotional Connotation

Many cities and towns are named with 'Fort' to signify a historical military presence.

Place Names

In modern times, a fort can refer to a playful structure in children's games.

Imagination and Play

A fort can also signify a cozy, private space for leisure or reading.

Cozy Retreat

 I've got to admit that it's incredible that even the old forts here have become spider caves. Every building is transforming into its own habitat. And if you replicate that across the island, there's a whole new ecosystem in action here. These places that typically people think are not useful brownfield sites, so much value for wildlife and more

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 which they also bought with slaves. The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent. As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality. After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded,

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 large fort it's extremely fun it's difficult it's challenging to be very stressful but how often can you get the opportunity to build a floor of this magnitude something that tens of thousands of visitors come through every year it's artistic unlike anything in the entire world

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 takes a toll on the planet i'm ginger z chief meteorologist at abc news my family and i are hitting the road to help rebuild and get a first-hand look at what it takes to save the planet so today we traveled to echo farm in fort myers florida to see how it can be done

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 I'm very very excited about that I'm forever in gratitude to the extraordinary health care workers who are keeping us all in check and who are holding our forts and keep our communities strong it's it's really a wild thing too to be attending to from a

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 play baseball I thought this was great initiative meets generosity Jay was our ambassador and that was my light bulb moment so I tracked down Jay flew to Fort Bragg and met with him and his team I told them the idea when soldiers

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 was the road that we told those dear people to come and fetch us on but less well not any luck so what we'll probably have to do is create a fort underneath this tree and sleep inside it right we're we're going to care we're not

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 that they don't want you around anymore so the rule is as I said earlier always an animal's defense is going to be far too flat and generally I'll avoid conflict and so they will run away using the fort but um sometimes they can

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 yeah bye mr trash you're doing your thing stay hungry to finish up we're heading south to fort myers beach florida to do some beach cleanup with alex shules the co-founder of four ocean this is a group that around the world

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 to hold the fort I'm afraid that's kind of how it goes Shazaam you must be a fairly new viewer yes they are primates in this area and they are baboons so these baboons and vervet monkeys and