Cruisers Quotes

#1. Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

David Nicholls

#2. Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

Barney Ross

#3. We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

Barney Ross

#4. The disaster had an important secondary effect: because two of the cruisers had stopped to help survivors of the initial attack and thus made themselves easy targets, the Admiralty issued orders forbidding large British warships from going to the aid of U-boat victims.

Erik Larson

#5. When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Brad Paisley

#6. Whatever had arrived to save her had not spoken, had not announced itself with anything except the silent killing it brought.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#7. Don't worry that other people don't know you;
worry that you don't know other people.

Confucius

#8. I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

Jodhi May

#9. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

Robert Emmet

#10. ...the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink.

Jack Kerouac

#11. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)

KoKo Nervelli

#12. To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.

Nhat Hanh

#13. Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Campbell Scott

#14. Any hot plans for the weekend, Peabody?"
"My usual, flicking off men like flies, breaking hearts, crushing souls.

J.D. Robb