Quotes About Pointe Du Hoc

#1. Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).

Stephen E. Ambrose

#2. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

H.W. Brands

#3. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

#4. Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

Carolina Herrera

#5. I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

Estelle Fanta Swaray

#6. It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

Chuck Close

#7. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

Yakov Smirnoff

#9. Memorization is not the same as remembering.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. What happens is what happens but you shouldnever give up.

Chasidy Merlos

#11. I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so ... silent. Empty.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

Damon Lindelof

#13. When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you ... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Susanne Katherina Langer

#15. My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.

Buddy Valastro

#16. I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.

Lee Daniels