Nitrocellulose Quotes & Sayings

Alexander speaks. Anthony, I'm going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was working at the Kirov factory, the largest weapons production facility in the Soviet Union. Do you know what she wore? A ratty brown cardigan that belonged to her grandmother. It was tattered and patched and two sizes too big for her. Even though it was June, she wore her much larger sister's black skirt that was scratchy wool. The skirt came down to her shins. Her too-big thick black cotton stockings bunched up around her brown work boots. Her hands were covered in black grime she couldn't scrub off. She smelled of gasoline and nitrocellulose because she had been making bombs and flamethrowers all day. And still I came every day to walk her home. — Paullina Simons

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. — Mother Teresa

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. — Solange Knowles

The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss. — Stieg Larsson

If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He — David Baldacci