Ship Missile Developed

Famous quotes containing the words ship, missile and/or developed:

“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

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

“... the aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)