Omaha Started Favorite

Famous quotes containing the words omaha, started and/or favorite:

    “The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!”
    —Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    “According to Father’s lexicon people who started on a job and didn’t stay at it for 50 years were “quitters.” If you stayed 20 years and then shifted to more congenial work you were a “drifter.””
    —Richard Bissell (1913–1977)

    “Hats have never at all been one of the vexing problems of my life, but, indifferent as I am, these render me speechless. I should think a well-taught and tasteful American milliner would go mad in England, and eventually hang herself with bolts of green and scarlet ribbon—the favorite colour combination in Liverpool.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)