Dark Air War

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

    “Between the dark and the daylight,
    When the night is beginning to lower,
    Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
    That is known as the Children’s Hour.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I’d call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America’s whole culture—aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn’t part of the local atmosphere.”
    —Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)