Detectors For Home Quotes & Sayings

Most dramatically, the Bridge served as an agonizing or exhilarating psychological symbol for the more than 1.2 million servicemen and women who sailed beneath it during World War II and for those soldiers and Marines who saw it from the air as their chartered World Airways or Flying Tiger plane took off from the Oakland Airport, banked westward across both bridges, and headed to Vietnam. Seen upon departure, whether from the channel or the air, the Golden Gate Bridge expressed the life left behind and the fearsome dangers to come. Seen upon return, the Bridge suggested safe harbor, recovery, the joy of life in years that now would be theirs. — Kevin Starr

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. — Tom T. Hall

A handicap parking permit is not a reward for a lifetime of poor eating habits ... — T. Rafael Cimino

I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life. — Judith Butler

We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are. — Marianne Williamson

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. — Richard Lindzen

No counsel have I to give to those that despair. Yet counsel I could give, and words I could speak to you. Will you hear them? They — J.R.R. Tolkien

In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief. — Angela Of Foligno

If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them. — Steven Magee

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo? — Cormac McCarthy

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again. — Paul Simon

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams

'Shadows' wasn't so difficult to get made. — Seymour Cassel