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 (18381918)
“... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“He, in his developed manhood, stood,
A little sunburnt by the glare of life.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)