Kitty Hawk Battle

Famous quotes containing the words kitty hawk, kitty, hawk and/or battle:

    “O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind’s withers!
    There, from Kill Devils Hill at Kitty Hawk
    Two brothers in their twinship left the dune;
    Warping the gale, the Wright wind wrestlers veered
    Capeward, then blading the wind’s flank, banked and spun.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind’s withers!
    There, from Kill Devils Hill at Kitty Hawk
    Two brothers in their twinship left the dune;
    Warping the gale, the Wright wind wrestlers veered
    Capeward, then blading the wind’s flank, banked and spun.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”
    —Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929)