Quotes About Raids

#1. If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, ( ... ). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

#2. During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

Simon Sinek

#3. Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

Elliott Abrams

#4. Raids are slightly constipating.

Elizabeth Bowen

#5. A GLUTTON IS ONE who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.

Frederick Buechner

#6. To protect the snack cupboard from late-night nom-nom raids,

Rick Riordan

#7. I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

Richard H. Davis

#8. Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Shirley Booth

#9. If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

#10. Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Dan Jenkins

#11. Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

Don DeLillo

#12. They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it, we have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#13. My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

Hideo Kojima

#14. So the first thing that went on was to decide ... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

James Stockdale

#15. Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Keith Henson

#16. My mom always said to wear clean underwear in case of an accident. What she didn't say was make sure your underwear drawer is neat and tidy and only filled with clean, sexy underwear in case of panty raids by cute boys.

Katrina Abbott

#17. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.

Nancy Mitford

#18. Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

#19. These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

Erica Lindquist

#20. I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

Alex Ferguson

#21. I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.

Erik Larson

#22. There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals ... no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

Richelle Mead

#23. It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

Steven Pinker

#24. Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

Anand Gopal

#25. I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers ... I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids.

Osama Bin Laden

#26. It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog.

Bill Bryson

#27. Anne is remarkably restrained in calibrating the amount of fear she will admit into the diary. The air raids, the break-ins, and the brutality reported by the helpers and glimpsed from the window appear at regular intervals, so that the reader can never fully relax.

Francine Prose

#28. When someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

Rosalyn Drexler

#29. There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Ruth Pitter

#30. In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown.

John Desmond Bernal

#31. I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe.

Nicholson Baker

#32. Till the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, most American men wore hats to work. What happened? Did our guys - suddenly scouting overhead for worse Sunday raids - come to fear their hatbrims' interference?

Allan Gurganus

#33. On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

James Stockdale

#34. Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Alexander Graham Bell

#35. Dirck bolted to his feet and peered out the window. It wasn't a storm. It was worse. An armored transport had stopped outside. Seven commandos, maybe more, stepped from its confines, each in shielded yellow armor, hostile in Zinni's searing light.

Marcha A. Fox