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:

    “When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like the middle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.”
    —Mark Hanna. Nathan Hertz. Dr. Von Loeb (Otto Waldis)

    “The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)