USS Greenling Ss-213/eighth and Ninth War Patrols December 1943 - May 1944

Famous quotes containing the words war, december, ninth and/or eighth:

    Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
    That from the nunnery
    Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
    To war and arms I fly.
    Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)

    For I have lost the race I never ran,
    A rathe December blights my lagging May;
    Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)

    “Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed” was the ninth beatitude.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    He seems like an average type of man. He’s not, like smart. I’m not trying to rag on him or anything. But he has the same mentality I have—and I’m in the eighth grade.
    Vanessa Martinez (b. c. 1978)