Artillery Fire Quotes

#1. You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

Paullina Simons

#2. Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.

Eugene B. Sledge

#3. Awakened by artillery fire, the frightened Confederate recruits ran out of town, some still in their bedclothes. The Federals gave this embarrassing retreat the derisive nickname of "The Battle of the Philippi Races.

Clint Johnson

#4. The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.

Michael Hastings

#5. In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.

Ernst Junger

#6. During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

Gerald R. Ford

#7. Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Lorrie Moore

#9. In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Ellsworth Kelly

#11. The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#12. If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

Robert Smith

#14. I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH

Gena Showalter

#15. Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

Ted Kooser

#16. I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Kat Graham

#17. The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

Mason Cooley

#18. His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option.

Alex Kershaw

#19. It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

Adrian Rogers

#20. We've seen what about 50% of our human capacity can accomplish. Visualize what 100% can do.

Warren Buffett

#21. I respect Everest very much.

Anatoli Boukreev

#22. At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

Tracy Chapman

#23. Artillery raining fire on his tiny village Jabla on the Line of Control (LoC). War has numbed him, so has devastation. Yet nothing had prepared him for the havoc of Saturday morning. He was taking a nap, having had his pre-dawn Ramzan meal. At first there

Anonymous

#24. A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.

Alessandra Torre

#25. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#26. The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.

David Douglas Duncan

#27. The only power desirable is the grace to pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita