Air force Quote by Cathleen Schine Download Open image ““Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.”” — Cathleen Schine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air force Crete Times square
“So he pointed to the unit patch on his uniform shirt and said, “U.S. . . . Air Force . . . American.” The… — Gregory A. Freeman Copy Share Image
“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a Purple Heart on.” — Eliot Rosewater Copy Share Image
“If it was that easy, the American military would have figured it out years ago.” — Christopher Rankin Copy Share Image
“In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“More Americans died in WWII than in any other world war, with the possible exception of WWI.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to become an… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America.… — Chelsea Cain Ira Levin Copy Share Image
“Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached… — Kathryn Miller Haines Copy Share Image
“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we used to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly,… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
“Iwo Jima is more officially known as “Sulfur Island,” and it lies in a chain of volcanic islands south of the Ogasawara Islands. In total, the area is known as the Ogasawara Archipelago or the Bonin Islands, and it was critically important because Iwo Jima is situated approximately 650 nautical miles south of Tokyo. For U.S. naval and air forces,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis… — Allen Boyd Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“F-35C & The South China Sea... Now what could possibly go wrong with that combination? I guess China will now be looking for that… — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved. — Joe W. Kelly Copy Share Image
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image