Ground Launched Cruise

Famous quotes containing the words ground, launched and/or cruise:

    “The poet is like the prince of the clouds
    Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
    Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
    His giant’s wings prevent him from walking.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “We’re designing a new spacecraft to be launched and there are no women. Where are they? I wonder. I worry.”
    —Andrea Dupree (b. 1939)

    “Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)