Famous quotes containing the words attempted, pipe and/or bomb:
“Your favor containing the question, as to whether I consider myself a new woman is before me. As a rule I do not consider myself at all. I am, and always have been a progressive woman, and while never directly attacking the conventionalities of society, have always done, or attempted to do those things which I have considered conducive to my health, convenience or emolument ...”
—Belva Lockwood (18301917)
“Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers
And never a ploughman under the Sun.
Never a ploughman. Never a one.”
—Hilaire Belloc (18701953)
“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as its been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”
—John Hersey (b. 1914)