Armored Personnel Carriers

Famous quotes containing the words armored, personnel and/or carriers:

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self- opinionated.”
    —Report by Personnel Officer at I.C.I., rejecting Mrs. Thatcher for a job in 1948.

    “Nature, doubtless, has some compelling cause
    To glut the carriers of her epidemics—
    Nor did the peach complain.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)