Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or missile:
“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)