Later Life
Preston retired from the Air Force on August 1, 1968. He died of cancer January 25, 1983.
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“And he thought to himself...., Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 12:17-20.
“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at workthe only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
—Vance Palmer (18851959)