Central Pacific

Central Pacific may refer to:

  • Central Pacific Railroad, the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States
  • Central Pacific Area, a subdivision of the Pacific Ocean Areas, an Allied military command in World War II
  • Central Pacific languages, a branch of the Oceanic languages

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or pacific:

    “The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us back out in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.”
    —Ellen Goodman (20th century)

    “We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
    —William James (1842–1910)