Quotes of Landing - somelinesforyou

“ We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall. ”

- Bob Jones

“ We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. ”

- Chauncey Depew

“ To die is landing on some distant shore. ”

- John Dryden

“ Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ”

- C. D. Jackson

“ Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. ”

- Joseph Bayly

“ Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. ”

- Unknown

“ A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing… ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ I have an appreciation for what Young and Rice did as a tandem. They threw a lot of touchdowns, but those touchdowns were helping the team win football games. That's what Marvin and I are about. He and I have definitely done some things together, but it's all come along with helping our team win games. ”

- Peyton Manning

“ I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play. ”

- Sam Neill

“ How large a share of vanity must spur the piety of the missionary. There is something melodramatic in landing on some Fiji island, in baptising, debauching and ultimately murdering the unsuspecting savage; then in taking his land in the name of the Most High. ”

- Richard Birnie

“ We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls… ”

- Winston Churchill
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