Point Defiance

Point Defiance may refer to:

  • Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington, USA
    • Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium within the park
  • USS Point Defiance (LSD-31), a dock landing ship
  • Point Defiance Elementary School, a school located within Tacoma, Washington

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defiance:

    “The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its jokes. While the association holds and the fashion lasts, they admit nothing well said or well done except by one of themselves, and they are incapable of appeciating anything from another source, to the point of despising those who are not initiated into their mysteries.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

    “For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.”
    —Ernest Becker (1924–1974)