Quotes About Hindenburg

#1. I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Dick Cavett

#2. Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.

Eoin Colfer

#3. The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

Richard Jeni

#4. I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

Wilhelm Keitel

#5. Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.

Rick Riordan

#7. One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 ...

R. W. Apple

#9. - you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always -

A. L. Kennedy

#10. In war, only the simple succeeds.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#11. He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

James Allen

#12. They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

Anna Von Der Goltz

#13. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#14. Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.

Craig Brown

#15. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Sarah Vowell

#16. In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#17. It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#18. I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#19. However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#20. By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.

Timothy Moran

#21. The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't. - Clary

Cassandra Clare

#22. What's the point of anything when the person you love isn't here with you?

M.M. Lindelo

#23. There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.

Linda Lappin

#24. If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

Georges Bernanos

#25. In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#26. The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#27. Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living.

Kevin Whately

#28. I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#29. He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#30. On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

H.L. Mencken

#31. It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

Paul Von Hindenburg