Shrapnel Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America ... (She is)… — Ben Stein
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel… — Barbara Ehrenreich
My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with… — Gordon Bennett
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike… — Helen Keller
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from… — Fritz Kreisler
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights… — John Dos Passos
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head. — Joanna Lumley
When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no… — John Pilger
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn
Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of… — James Belushi
When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the… — Hunter S. Thompson
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me. — John Hodgman
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing… — Dean Young
The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their… — Adolf Hitler
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you? — Kurt Vonnegut
Hey!" Sam snapped, ducking the sticky shrapnel. "Keep your snot to yourself." Dev scoffed at that. "Oh, so now you don't want to touch me,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I… — Diana Gabaldon
Could be. Iâ€™m a pretty dangerous dude when Iâ€™m cornered.â€ â€œYeah,â€ said the voice from under the table, â€œyou go to pieces so fast people… — Douglas Adams

Who Wrote These Shrapnel Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Shrapnel Quotes as follows: