Shrapnel Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
— Katharine Whitehorn
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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
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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
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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
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
— George Santayana
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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
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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
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Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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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
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Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.†“Yeah,†said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people…
— Douglas Adams
Who Wrote These Shrapnel Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Shrapnel Quotes as follows: