Amphibious Assault Ships

Famous quotes containing the words amphibious, assault and/or ships:

“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)