Bombs Quotes - Page 39

• People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Should Have, People, Taste

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• With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

  Red Adair

  Mistake, Fire, One Mistake

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

  John Mellencamp

  Hurt, Fall, President

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• I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

  Todd Rundgren

  Hydrogen Bomb, Hands, Peaceful

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• Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thank God, Politics, Nukes

  Song: Thank God For The Bomb, Album: The Ultimate Sin

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• The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

  Tom Lehrer

  Shepherds, Politics, Psalms

  Song: Who's Next?, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

  Mark Udall

  Progress, Genuine, Throwing

  "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.

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• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

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• And when I say it, they get alarmed...
  'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Hip Hop, Causes

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

  Andre Breton

  Art, Ribbons, Frida

  "Surrealism and Painting". Book by André Breton, 1972.

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• If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

  John Pilger

  Children, War, Support

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

  Paul Krassner

  Atheist, Japan, Age

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• Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

  Juan Trippe

  Destiny, Air, Atoms

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• I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

  George Sweeting

  Anger, Thinking, Hydrogen Bomb

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• If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

  Bhagat Singh

  Government, Sound, India

  "Awakening Indians to India" by Chinmaya Yuva Kendra, (p. 82), 2008.

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• How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

  Osbert Sitwell

  Simple, Done, Ancient

  "Tribune", Quoted by George Orwell, December 31, 1943.

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

  Curtis LeMay

  Horny, Age, Would Be

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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• We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Children, Home

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, www.skeptictank.org. November 17, 1957.

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, War, Space

  Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

  Judd Apatow

  Making Money, Reviews, Terrible

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.

  Dan Halutz

  Light, Want, Gone

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• In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, People, Dying

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