Air Defense Missile

Famous quotes containing the words air, defense and/or missile:

    “Up from the South at break of day,
    Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
    The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
    Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain’s door,
    The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
    Telling the battle was on once more,
    And Sheridan twenty miles away.”
    —Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)

    “For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
    For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God
    to him exceedingly.”
    —Christopher Smart (1722–1771)

    “... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)