Squadron Quotes

#1. Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber.

Eric Schlosser

#2. In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.

Lynn Garrison

#3. Parents are unpredictable when their children are involved," Harding said. "I'd much rather fight a squadron of Forgotten than deal with an affluent mother who thinks her son is in danger.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.

Joseph Heller

#5. And then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.

Michael Morpurgo

#6. The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

William Falconer

#7. It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Adolf Galland

#8. The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she'd been and took away their right to Choose.

Seanan McGuire

#9. She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Robert Brady

#11. A Squadron Commander who can't take his best friend out and shoot him can't Command worth s*#t"
-Steep Turner

William L. Smallwood

#12. The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Clive James

#13. Fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he: mere

William Shakespeare

#14. A gang of wild turkeys patrolled the edge of the forest, upright and alert, looking oddly saurian and menacing, like a lost squadron of velociraptors.

Lev Grossman

#15. For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'

Rahul Kohli

#16. Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

William S. Burroughs

#17. At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

Shirley Manson

#18. But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Alan Shepard

#19. Willy Lazeer is an acquaintance. His teeth and his feet hurt. He hates the climate, the Power Squadron, the government and his wife. The vast load of hate has left him numbed rather than bitter. In appearance, it is as though somebody bleached Sinatra, skinned him, and made Willy wear him.

John D. MacDonald

#20. two A-4 Skyhawks from VFC-13's aggressor squadron to taxi by. He swallowed

Dan Zimberoff

#21. Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

Robert Rankin

#22. In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

Henry A. Kissinger

#23. ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Kate Atkinson

#24. Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.

Bert Stiles

#25. Rapier Squadron was transferred from Mirrin Prime and redeployed aboard a refitted Mon Calamari cruiser called Echo of Hope.

Greg Rucka

#26. The Goliath could have been carrying a squadron of the new - and seemingly disposable - TIE fighters.

James Luceno

#27. I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

James Stockdale

#28. Baby boy, go hire a squadron
My crib got more poles than a fire department.

Cam'ron

#29. Strange as it may seem, the Air Force, except in the air, is the least mobile of all the services. A squadron can reach its destination in a few hours, but its establishments, depots, fuel, spare parts, and workshops take many weeks, and even months, to develop.

Winston S. Churchill

#30. I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts.

Jules Vedrines

#31. Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this ... skirmish.

Brian Regan

#32. Focus on the squadron, Naasir. I will take care of Lijuan.

Nalini Singh

#33. There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#34. With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.

Joseph Heller

#35. Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.

Aaron Allston

#36. She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.

Sarah Sundin

#37. You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

Aaron Allston