Launched Cruise Missile

Famous quotes containing the words launched, cruise and/or missile:

    “It grazes the horizons, launched above

    Mortality—ascending emerald-bright,
    A fountain at salute, a crown in view—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)

    “... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)