Royal Air Force Quotes & Sayings

When the shadows take you, there's nothing left to mourn. — Mander Ritzert

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My grandpa used to be in the Royal Air Force when he was younger," Liam tells me. "He loved to fly. He had his own airplane. Still does. When I was twelve, he told me that he thought it was time that I learned how to fly a plane."

"You flew a plane when you were twelve?" I give him a shocked look.

"My grandpa's not exactly on the conventional side." The fondness on his face tells me that his grandpa means a great deal to him. "And when I say 'fly'" - he air quotes - "it was him flying and me being copilot. But twelve-year-old me thought that he meant literally fly the plane. So, I was shitting myself."

"I can imagine. I'd shit if someone said that to me now, and I'm twenty-two."

Liam laughs. "I think you'd probably surprise yourself."

"No, I'm pretty sure I'd surprise the person sitting with me - you know, after I shit myself. — Samantha Towle

Sharks are declining globally ... — Barbara Block

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. — Mike Myers

Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions. — Mike Huckabee

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere. — Angelina Jolie

It's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world. — Orson Scott Card

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter. — Dorothy Nevill

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment. — John Amery

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. — Lady Margaret Sackville

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it. — Hugh Howey

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways. — Rachel Joyce

In the indigenous world, we assign sacred value to circles. But sometimes a circle just means you keep returning to the same shit again and again. This book is a series of circles, sacred and profane. — Sherman Alexie

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. — Wally Schirra

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested. — Christopher Cockerell

Are the fae ever sane? We live in a world that isn't there half the time. We claim that windmills are giants, and because we say it, it's true. Our lives become myth and legend, until even we can't tell what we truly are from what we're told we ought to be. How can we live that way and be considered sane? My lord was never sane, but he was my love once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die. — Seanan McGuire

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years. I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up. — Philip Pullman

He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?"
I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly. — R.L. LaFevers

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. — Elliott Abrams