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 great passion in a man’s life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.
    Frank Pittman (20th century)

    I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
    Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)