Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

    “Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
    —Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)

    “Strong to break dead things,
    the young tree, drained of sap,
    the old tree, ready to drop,
    to lift from the rotting bed
    of leaves, the old
    crumbling pine tree stock.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)