Dark Air War

Famous quotes containing the words dark, air and/or war:

    “On the green they watched their sons
    Playing till too dark to see,
    As their fathers watched them once,
    As my father once watched me;”
    —Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

    “Then, that no region of the universe
    Should remain void of life, the floor of heaven
    Was peopled with the stars and godlike forms,
    The seas became the abode of glittering fish.
    Earth took the beasts and mobile air the birds.
    A holier animal was wanting.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)