Midway Island Quotes

#1. On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Jack Adams

#2. What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Chiang Kai-shek

#3. I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Emma Roberts

#4. I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it.

David Alpay

#5. Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

Gregory Boyington

#6. The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

Edwin O. Reischauer

#7. My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

Naomie Harris

#8. More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

#9. There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

Robert Cowley

#10. The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

Candice Swanepoel

#12. It's not what you know anymore that counts, it's how fast you learn

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. Once you start walking, the long road will start shortening!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. The Urban Simulation Team at UCLA has created a truly incredible online simulation of the 1893 Columbian Exposition that made me feel as though I'd actually strolled the sidewalks of the Wooded Island, toured the Palace of Fine Arts, and explored the Midway Plaisance.

Rysa Walker

#15. Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#16. Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

James Riley

#17. I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

John Astin